Trigger Warning: There’s a fair chance you’ve been through something like these if you’re a pastor or church member. Thom Rainer harvests responses from a Twitter survey about church conflicts caused by silly things. The comment thread is providing more examples. If you read it and are thinking “These don’t sound so bad compared to …
Trying to lead a local church to have less organised activities seems to be a constant struggle. Jared Wilson has an extended post which includes ten observations about the tendency to have lots going on. Here’s a few of them: 2. Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busyness. 4. Over-programming runs …
Danny Hyde writes about the need to resist the cultural influences that Christians can succumb to by which: …we tend to treat the church like a drive-through restaurant. We think to ourselves, “It will always be there and it will always have what I want, when I want it.” So, some of us attend worship …
Some reflections on a group training simulation I participated in last week. The article is destined for our local paper. I recently had the privilege of participating in a training event for disaster management preparedness. The training event involved setting up a Relief Centre to give various agencies an opportunity to test and refine their …
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