The fact I’m in Adelaide for a Presbytery meeting today is coincidental, but not unrelated to posting this material from Leadership Freak. I’m adjusting the title from the original posts, which insists these will fix lousy meetings, but personal experience questions that assertion. Law #1: Thou shalt always declare the purpose of the meeting before …
Marion Andrews writes about the life she has shared with husband Stuart over thirty years in ministries in Miles (Qld) and Tamworth (NSW). Marion demonstrates her skill as writer, relating memories that traverse all the emotional terrain of a rich and varied season of service. You’re mad if you don’t read it.
John Ortberg hits the bullseye in considerations about Mark Driscoll’s resignation from Mars Hill. The temptation is to focus on what we do or don’t do instead of looking deeply into our character. The pastor, the board said, had been guilty of arrogance — along with other attitudes and behaviors associated with arrogance. But had …
Chuck Lawless summarises his own work on expectant versus reactive churches. When I get weary I trend more to the reactive spectrum. There’s a bunch of things that I call my ‘to do’ list. More of them were actioned in my early days at MGPC. Over the last few years the pace has slowed. I’m …
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