These twelve principles for guiding established churches through change by Sam Rainer make sense. Since every healthy established church is continually changing through growth, these need to be observed everywhere. In my observations, three, five, eight and ten are consistent areas of stumbling in fostering change. If we believe in the body of Christ, then …
In the next couple of months MGPC will visited by a consultant to help us discern our opportunities for mission and ministry in Mount Gambier, with a special view to the transition of our second pastoral position early in 2016. Part of that examination is discerning our own congregational culture, to better know how we …
Grandson and I sang along to this tonight. He always wants to discuss the implausibility of the alternate renditions in the second half. And then we enjoyed Bears three or four times.
I like Zack Eswine’s writing. In Spurgeon’s Sorrows Eswine sensitively considers the experience of depression, using Charles Spurgeon’s experiences and writings as a reference point. Such are the variations in depression I’m loathe to generalise or make it look like there are universal treatments that will bring relief. It’s not a long book, but it …
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