This self-diagnostic question from Dan Rockwell interested me: “If we were replaced tomorrow, what would the new team do?” I read it as: If you can identify what a successor would have to do, then why aren’t you attempting to do it? There’s nine more questions at this post at Leadership Freak.
Younger generations of families have no shortage of willing volunteers prepared to tell them which senior members of the family they most resemble. As Paul encourages Titus in his task of appointing leaders to local churches, the apostle reveals the essential image of a local church as he describes the character of their elders. The …
Back when I was testing my call to pastoral ministry a phrase I kept encountering was ‘pastor’s heart’. I don’t hear it so much these days amid discussions about various skill sets which are considered desirable for pastors. Thabiti Anyabwile expresses the central necessity of a pastor’s heart in this post from his blog, in …
Carl Trueman commences a series of posts about being a church leader who has subscribed to a confession. Take an elder in a confessional church. He has taken public vows before the church to uphold a particular set of theological tenets, for example, the sovereignty of God as articulated in the Westminster Confession of Faith …
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