This post by Brad Lomeneck about the ’14 Things Older Leaders Should Know About Younger Leaders’ made me realise that I’m not a young leader. (No need for any comment about that observation.) When I first read the post, given the ‘qualities and characteristics as a generation’ which young leaders generally exhibit, I thought I …
Fellow Mount Gambier pastor Rudy Furlong read these to us this morning. They make sense and are similar to other protocols I’ve heard. Thing is, hearts that want to grow in grace will benefit from accountability like this. Hearts that do not will see such principles as a burden. These rules are not the final …
Last year I posted on pastoral transitions in the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Here’s a post on the 9Marks site advocating that the elders of a church should lead the situation of pastoral succession (organically) rather than create a special committee to do the task. The post points to articles by Mark Dever and Bobby …
A month or so ago a small group tried to work out what was structurally wrong with the Presbyterian Church of Australia. I think I tried to point out that the PCA is structurally functioning just as it was designed to, as a ‘weak’ national body that is subject to the parochial concerns of the …
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