On two stages of being a pastor. A title received at once, a role you become as you live into it. The work worthy of a life indeed. From Love Big Be Well: You’ve entrusted me with this place among you, but I know I must show myself trustworthy and earn the deeper belonging, the …
I’ll be getting a copy of Karl Vater’s book Small Church Essentials. While the main cross-cultural issue is that characterising a congregation of under 250 people as a small church in Australia is an over-reach, the observations about group dynamics in groups of varying sizes should hold true. This excerpt about who shapes culture in …
Baby meerkats. What more do you need to know?
This morning it occurred to me that in striving to nurture a grace-filled culture in a local church that there are two expressions of grace required. The first of those is a culture of grace that frees people to be who they are; liberated from carrying the pretences and masks of self-protection that make them …
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