Spent a week away meeting with other church leader types. Which means that I heard this question a lot. You’d think pastors would know better. Tim Challies offers some thoughtful alternatives. He promises a second part to this post. So how many people go to your church?” That’s a question just about every pastor faces …
The black dog’s barely raised a Monday ‘woof’ for well over six months now, which is sort of a record. J.D. Greear posted three insightful and constructive posts about avoiding burnout last week. Greear credits Brad Hambrick, counseling pastor at their church with this material. Burnout issues are related to the black dog. Not managing …
The last week of January / first week of February is when the annual meetings of various committees of the Presbyterian Church of Australia are held in Sydney. As a pastor from one of the smaller state churches I back up and attend a few and make a week of it. Today I’ll be meeting …
I commented yesterday that all the elephants at this year’s Elephant Room event seemed to be outside the room. Inside the room (on my reading of Wax’s notes) there seemed less of last year’s committment to understanding how the same commitments can be expressed differently in ministry and mission and more of everyone affirming each …
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