Leadership
Driving Dead Horses
Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: 1. Buying a stronger whip. 2. Changing riders. 3. Saying things like “This is the way we always have ridden this horse.” 4. […]
Retreat For A Burned-Out Pastor
One of John Mark Ministries’ gifts to the wider church is to offer two-day ‘This is Your Life’ retreats for pastors, leaders, and/or their spouses, and others. See http://jmm.org.au/ajmm/ajmm0003.htm for some of the issues we talk about. The following summary-letter followed a pastor’s recent retreat. It is being shared with his encouragement and approval. The […]
Preaching And Ethics
Here’s something I heard on a/an R. T. Kendall tape while driving to Sale last week. Whitefield – a ‘great’ British preacher (contemporary of Wesley’s, but not as ‘methodical’) was preaching about the second coming, a la ‘I think I can hear the trumpet… I can hear the trumpet… Quick repent, the trumpet’s about the […]
What Does A Healthy Church Look Like?
[ADDRESS TO THE ANGLICAN SYNOD OF GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, 15th May, 1998] Thank you for the privilege of being with you tonight, at the commencement of your annual Synod. It has been quite an Anglican week for me: I flew home yesterday from a four-day conference with the Canberra-Goulburn clergy. Indeed it’s an Anglican year: […]
Dealing With ‘Two-Faced’ People In Your Church
Ministry Health How To Deal With Dr. Jekyl–Mr. Hyde In Your Church Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 81 Those “Two-Faced” People We’ve all seen and experienced them. In our less "professional" moments, perhaps we might have justly or unjustly lashed out at those whom we perceived to be two-faced, hypocritical, skin-deep "wolves in sheep’s […]
Who Cares For The Pastor?
Rugged times out there? You bet. Not only do laypersons get caught in the squash, pastors get messed up big time. Note the results of the l99l Fuller Institute of Church Growth survey of l000 pastors throughout the US: * 90% of pastors work more than 46 hours per week. * 80% believe pastoral ministry […]
Church Planting: An Idea Whose Idea Has Come Again!
by Dr. James H. Montgomery For years, Freddie Gwanzura of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe, struggled to fill the 300 seats in his little church on the outskirts of town. Then a famous evangelist pitched his 10,000-seat tent just one kilometer away. Finally, he thought, his congregation of 60 would increase dramatically. The tent […]
Church Planting: Experimental Approaches
by Rev. Dr. Martin Robinson The DAWN Congress, held in Birmingham in 1992, concluded with the setting of two ambitious goals for the Christian Church in Britain. 20,000 new congregations to be planted by the year 2,000 resulting in 20% of the nation attending church on a regular basis. These bold goals were backed to […]
Effective Church Planting
by Phillip Butler As we consider effective church planting, we might do well to study more closely that parenthetical passage which, in the middle of the story of the Samaritan woman in John 4, Jesus instructs his disciples on the importance of understanding the role of relationships and partnership in evangelism. In this passage, Jesus […]
Church Leadership: 44 Lessons From Lyle Schaller [1]
44 Lessons On Church Leadership From Lyle Schaller* (Part I)Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A.Number 198 1. “If the discussion about the budget can be shifted from money to ministry, from economy to effectiveness, and from means to purpose, there may be no ceiling on what Christians will do to fulfill their calling.” Parish Planning, p. […]
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