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Doing Or Dying?

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

By Ron Gooding ———————————————————————— Time is running out for many churches. The inability to effect some fundamental changes will eventually threaten their very existence! Research by Outreach Canada reveals that of the 9,150 evangelical churches in Canada, 6,000 have plateaued and suffer from inward focus, a maintenance orientation, and a loss of mission drive. Another […]

Stages Of Ministry

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-102 (Leadership Issues) A Pastors/Leaders Survival Guide [6] 2-3 STAGES OF MINISTRY By Rowland Croucher —- Continuing our series on Pastors’/Leaders’ ministry-survival. The full text of these chapters can be found on the John Mark Ministries’ Website – http://jmm.org.au/articles/8658.htm In this series of leadership studies, I am looking at the factors associated […]

Loving Correction (Church Discipline)

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-103 (Leadership Issues) BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #030519 LOVING CORRECTION – Why We Need Church Discipline Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Some argue that it doesn’t pay to exercise church discipline these days. Why? People outside the Church get too upset. Consider the case of […]

Code Of Ethics – First Draft [2]

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

2. PASTORS AND THE CHURCH. Pastors have a key place and role within the community of faith, providing leadership in the church’s ministries of worship, community, formation and mission. They touch people’s lives at many points of joy, pain, celebration, grief and vulnerability. They train the church to serve the Lord in caring for one […]

Code Of Ethics – First Draft [3]

By and others ⋅ May 26, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

3. PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IN MINISTRY PROFESSIONALISM AND COMPETENCE: HIGH STANDARDS FOR A HIGH CALLING A ‘profession’ is a group of people engaged in an occupation or calling whose competency depends upon specialised knowledge. A pastor’s ‘specialised knowledge’ is theology – knowledge of/about God. So their professionalism is enhanced by disciplined and prayerful reflection on how […]

Revitalizing Congregations (Interim Ministry)

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A Review of the book: “Revitalizing Congregations: Refocusing and Healing through Transitions” By William O. Avery Alban Institute 2002 Reviewed by Jim Royston This new publication from The Alban Institute is a collection of six case studies of congregations being served by an Intentional Interim Pastor. The churches represented several mainline Protestant congregations from North […]

Data Projectors And Faith

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

An email to the leaders of the church I’m co-pastoring at the moment (May 2003): Dear GECCC leaders, In response to the emailed ‘teaser’ about data projectors and their usefulness (and cost) we’ve had a couple of useful responses. Yes, our finances are such that we can’t afford one. As you will recall from the […]

Mainline Churches’ Decline

By and others ⋅ May 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Mainline Protestants reeling By GARY STERN THE JOURNAL NEWS (Original publication: May 4, 2003) http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/050403/a0104mainline.html They sit stately and unadorned in every community, churches of stone or white clapboard that link today’s frenetic culture to a pious, inconceivably mannered past. It is easy to drive by these old-time Protestant churches, where generations of immigrants thanked […]

The Pressures Of Leadership

By and others ⋅ May 21, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Numbers 11:1-34 In Everyday Discipleship for Ordinary People, Stuart Briscoe relates an experience of one of his young ministerial colleagues who was officiating at the funeral of a war veteran. The dead man’s military friends wanted to have a part in the service at the funeral home, so they requested the pastor to lead them […]

Church Next

By and others ⋅ May 20, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Last night, in a group of men with whom I meet once a month, we had a discussion about the contemporary Church. Chris Hunter (who has been a youth/associate pastor in four Baptist churches) led our discussion. In a sentence, I heard Chris say the Church needs to be far more creative and flexible (a […]

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