Brian Croft features this pearler about how to spend year one in a new parish (especially for first time pastors): “Preach the Word. Love the people. Don’t change anything.” You can read the rest here to find all the necessary qualifications. 2004 in Mount Gambier Presbyterian was pretty similar to 2003. My predecessor, Rod Waterhouse, …
At our pastor’s prayer meeting this morning one of my colleagues (Dean) mentioned a book, The Crucifixion of Ministry: Surrendering Our Ambitions to the Service of Christ by Andrew Purves. What do you know, but in my rss reader was a post by Justin Taylor quoting from the book. Some other blogs picked it up …
Some thoughts on a sparse calendar of church related activities. The title: How Churches Fake God’s Work seems a little stronger than the more irenic tone of the conversation with Ray Ortlund and Darren Patrick. Ortlund makes the point that when God is at work heavy programming is not only unnecessary, it can be counter-productive. …
Eric Speir offers these seven tips to be an effective leader. These are helpful for anyone with any leadership responsibility. If you’re not a leader, follow these and you soon will be. ht 1. Be a next step kind of thinker. When going into a meeting be prepared with not just your first step, but …
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