I have more and more empathy with the basic position expressed in these thoughts from Jared Wilson, particularly in the area of busyness expressed in points 2, 4, 6 and 8. Sometimes it’s possible to program activity and it simply becomes something more to be done than genuinely meeting a need. I’m a big fan …
From Matt Perman at What’s Best Next: “John Dickson’s message today [at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit] on humility is the most insightful and helpful I’ve ever heard on the subject.” Perman is director of strategy at Desiring God, so I take it he hears a lot of really good (and possibly otherwise) Bible teaching, …
I’m sure more than a few of us who serve as pastors took a moment to answer the Australian Census question about the chief product produced by our workplaces. Eric Landry attended Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit, and among other observations about the event, offers these thoughts about: What business is the church in? …
A recurring theme at mgpcpastor is trying to discourage the completely unhelpful fad of equating ‘worship’ with ‘singing’ (or the even worse habit of designating the fast songs ‘praise’ and the slow songs ‘worship’) and calling the song-leader in church the worship-leader or the worship-pastor. So this post at Catalystspace caught my eye. With tongue …
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