Brad Hambrick makes a necessary distinction that is vital if pastoral care and personal support is to be appropriate for people whose problems have different causative conditions: From the article: The concern I want to discuss is the tendency to assume that biblical principles like those found in I Corinthians 10:13 mean that all our …
Chuck Lawless offers ten signs leaders have stopped growing. The head points of his list: You can talk about nothing new about God and His grace. You’ve read no new books in the last six months. You are preaching and teaching “re-runs.” You haven’t recently tackled any “God-sized” challenges. You haven’t shared the gospel with …
Chuck Lawless quotes Chuck Swindoll: Why tradition is good: It honors God for what He has done. Tradition, by definition, is tied to the past. Ideally, though, it focuses on God and what He has done, not on what we used to do in the church. Healthy tradition is concerned about glorifying God only. It …
Jamie Brown writes from the perspective of leading musical praise in a local church, but the principle is true for all leaders, including pastors. There is always a danger of building trust, but never calling on that trust to be expressed; just as expecting trust continually without ever earning it does not build relationships. Pastors …
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