A thoughtful answer to a difficult to respond to question. Darryl Dash frames a response to the enquiry “How’s ministry going?” “It’s hard. It’s joyous. It’s difficult to measure.” My generic answer to that question or variations of it is “Along.” Dash concludes: In the end, I don’t know how my ministry is going. Only …
I’m always uncomfortable when people tell me I’m busy. (They’re always making that observation in an encouraging and sympathetic way, not as a complaint, btw) From Seth Godin: There’s a common safe place: Being busy. We’re supposed to give you a pass because you were full on, all day. Frantically moving from one thing to …
In a post about leadership Ed Stetzer identifies a number of areas that he describes as mature leadership. On of these has to do with accountability. Mature leaders purposefully set up structures for accountability and then seek and receive genuine accountability within those structures. They understand that it is easy to be drawn into inappropriate …
I grew up with a church system that had two bodies, one tasked with spiritual and the other tasked with temporal matters. It is not a helpful distinction in so far as everything is spiritual and practical. At its worst the ‘temporal’ body can use its power to veto the plans of the ‘spiritual’ body, …
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