An article by Adam Stadtmiller on cultivating change without the cost of relationships. Superficial change can be made quickly, cultural change takes much longer. From the article: One of the most explosive errors that a leader can make is to mistake changing things for changing culture. Changing things is easy and offers quick emotional payoff …
This video is directed towards pastors and other Christian ministry workers, but is applicable to everyone. The danger of allowing a role to define your identity is that every role has a limited time frame. When the role ends identity can come adrift. Identity for the Christian must be found in the eternal.
Some churches are opposed to change because they’re invested more in themselves than they are in the Gospel. But some gospel grounded churches are put off change because of the way it’s introduced. Karl Vaters writes at Leadership Journal: Churches can handle change. If you’ve tried and failed to change things at your church, that …
As promised, here’s a link to part two of Ray Galea’s personal and helpful post. Part 3 is forthcoming. Anger betrays a lack of understanding that it is God alone who brings a change of mind in a person’s life. While gentleness is a declaration that God is sovereign, anger is a denial of the …
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