Leadership
Music: Is There Any Chance Of Harmony?
It is hard to find a congregation these days where the choice of music in worship is not an issue. The first signs of change appeared years ago when the green Baptist Hymn Book was replaced in numbers of our churches by alternative books. At about the same time the early editions of Scripture in […]
Minorities – They Are Alive And Well In The Church
Welcome to the age of minorities! Small, highly organised groups of committed people are addressing single issues and wielding enormous political power. Greenies, freeway protesters, women’s libbers, homosexuals, dissident trade unions and all the rest have leant how to make their point with powerful and impressive results. Without making an assessment of the worth of […]
Sex And Pastors
‘THINKING CHRISTIANLY’ ABOUT THE ISSUE OF PASTORS AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. The article ‘Leaders Deny Widespread Sexual Misbehaviour’ in last month’s Victorian Baptist Witness raised some of the most painful questions facing today’s church. The March 15 ABC-TV Compass program claimed that 15% or more of clergy have sexually abused people in their congregations. And, of […]
Hymns Yp/Oldies
The #1 question we are asked in John Mark Ministries’ church consultations: how can oldies/trads and youth/progressives worship appropriately/enjoyably in the same context? Short answer: they can’t, without a lot of creative hard work. Reason: pre-TV and post-TV people belong to different cultures. (See the article TV or not TV? on our homepage). So if […]
Evangelism – Are There Still Lost People Out There
Oops, don’t look now but our slip is showing. Something is just slightly out of whack, out of shape. There’s just one small problem: we are not correcting the situation. Perhaps it is too hard! According to the latest set of figures for Baptists in the Garden State, not everything is rosy: *Two thirds of […]
Macro Faith
If only Paul had known about Macro Faith! It could have transformed his ministry. MF (especially designed for caring pastors with moderate computer skills) is a windows wonder. At long last the intricacies of pastoral leadership have been simplified to maximise your day. User friendly MF will alleviate all the headaches which go with Christian […]
Pastoring The Powerful
It seems that there is no shortage of powerful people in our churches. In response to an earlier Ministry Perspective, many pastors disclosed their own struggles with those described as "TMs." Some even wondered if the paper had been written with specific people in their congregation in mind. Since it appeared that a nerve had […]
Don’t Look Now But Next Year’s Coming
Diaries, like fire and water, are wonderful servants but dreadful masters. Given that the day to day exercise of the pastoral ministry has such an unknown quantity about it, planning ahead may seem to be an exercise in futility. We frequently complain about shortages of time and the stresses arising from unexpected demands which can […]
Pastoral Excellence
MINISTRY AS EMPOWERMENT by Rowland Croucher (GRID, Summer 1989) It was 10 pm., and the 60-year-old patient would not last the night. She was still conscious so her grieving daughter and I prepared for a bedside vigil. Then a thought: I preach about the ministry of the whole church, so why was I there in […]
Toronto Blessing
(An interview with Rev. Rob Isaachsen, senior pastor, Christ Church (Anglican), Dingley, Melbourne, Victoria). [Christ Church Dingley has been the ‘mecca’ for people in Melbourne-and-everywhere-in-southern-Australia who are interested in this latest ‘move of the Spirit’ as Rob puts it. An estimated 26,000 people have visited the church in the last year to attend Tuesday/Wednesday evenings, […]
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