Leadership
Let’s Find Our Prophetic Voice
whose contribution has universal application, though written this time from a specifically Australian context. Let’s Find Our Prophetic Voice! When it came to recruiting prophets, the Almighty should have worked through a professional head hunting agency. Instead, He constantly got stuck with the retiring, the reticent, the young, the inept and the battler. As for […]
Pastor As Ceo
Ministry Health Electronic Journal Isaiah, Son of Amoz, CEO Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 135 What distinctive things do the following have in common? Isaiah, Son of Amoz, CEO; Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, CEO; Ezekiel, the Priest, CEO; Daniel of Judah, CEO; Hosea, Son of Beeri, CEO; Joel, son of Pethuel, CEO; Amos of […]
Be Accountable!
By Chip Alford GLORIETA, N.M. (BP) — To Rod Handley, character counts. That’s why he gets up early every Monday for a 6-8 a.m. "accountability meeting" with a small group of Christian men. "When I get gut-level honest with God, myself and others, I realize I don’t always make the right decisions and choices," Handley, […]
Church Attendance
No, it’s not just happening at your place. Wherever you look attendances at morning worship services are in a state of high fluctuation. While it may vary from church to church, the best guess is that up to one third of a congregation may be missing from your average Sunday service. The reasons for this […]
Postdenominationalism
By Chip Alford GLORIETA, N.M. (BP)–The loyalty level to denominations may be on the endangered species list, but a Southern Baptist professor isn’t forecasting extinction, just change. "I’m not so sure it’s as tragic as we think it is," Steve Stookey, associate professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, […]
The Value Of Counsel
Where there is no guidance, the people fall, but in abundance of counselors there is victory (Proverbs 11:14). No one person has complete knowledge, and everyone has a limited perspective on the truth. God has structured the church in such a way that we need each other. I have made some dumb decisions that would […]
National Church Life Survey
Not just another survey by Bronwyn Hughes and Merilyn Correy ‘Christian Survey Debunks Myths’ was the front-page headline in a major Australian daily newspaper. With its accompanying photo of National Church Life Survey team member Merilyn Correy holding one of the team’s publications ‘Views from the Pews’, this NCLS story about religion in Australia achieved […]
People Helping And Malpractice
by Thomas P Azar How would you react if you received an unexpected knock at your door and a police officer handed you a subpoena, read you your legal rights, gave you a ride in the back of a police car through downtown, took your picture for the police files, gave your name to the […]
Chaos-Free Change
By Terri Lackey RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP)–Human beings are born for change — they just don’t know it. "We are risk-takers. We learn to walk without worrying about falling," Bob Sheffield told a group of church leaders attending the National Conference for Church Leadership at Ridgecrest (N.C.) Baptist Conference Center June 26-29. But before long, humans […]
Are You A ‘Super Pastor’?
Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 104 "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those who bring Good News, who proclaim good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’" Isaiah 52:7 (NIV) Are Pastors "Super" Christians? No, indeed we are not. We are simply sinful human beings subject to […]
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