Ashley Hibbard provides a guest-post at Dashhouse which ponders whether management skill and leadership have supplanted serving as the marker of pastoral leadership in the church. Avoiding polar extremes, the problem identified is whether the motivation to engage with others is for their benefit, or to be noticed. From the post: There are many unhealthy …
I’m attending meetings this week. It’s sort of soft return to work. This cartoon is sort of my management plan, explaining why nothing seems to go wrong for me. (btw, this web cartoon is close to my life an uncomfortably lot of the time)
Dave Harvey at Sojourn Network reminds me that a minister of the Gospel does not find his identity and self-worth in ministry of the Gospel, but in the Gospel I minister. If you long to be in pastoral ministry, the starting place is the gospel. You must know the gospel, love the gospel, and delight …
The local pastors were musing on the necessity of pastoral leadership to be qualified by character and not personality this morning. The culture in which we live values celebrity, which stands in contrast to the incarnational values of the kingdom. From Zack Eswine. The Origin of Celebrity Culture Celebrity culture comes from at least two …
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