Leadership has to be an expression of the Fruit of the Spirit, not a cover for egos, bullying and power.
Author: Chris Green
Here is the single, most devastating sentence in the book: ââI am pretty sure a smart, productive atheist could do my job well,â said a successful pastor.â
So, what are the spiritual habits for pastors, so that we avoid self-sabotage? They are all obvious, but essential. And in my experience, we need to re-learn these lessons frequently, and with increasing force over time.
There are three forces which are determined that you fail to follow Christ, and will show you no mercy in attacking you at the moment of of your greatest vulnerability.
After Iâve looked back over the significant moments of the previous week, and everything thatâs happened, I now want to ask, âWho do I need to thankâ?
This is no surprise: I am a huge fan of Michael Hyattâs products. Theyâve become central to how I organise myself as a pastor. They are undeniably expensive here in the UK (especially when import duties apply as well as shipping), but the planners themselves justify it, I think. At least, I am still using
A book of wonderful treasures
This book is quite superb. Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, expertly selected, and dizzyingly clever.
The question we’re trying to answer is one I know you face too: How do you communicate well, in a busy church, with most people attending every two-to-three weeks?
I get to write a short piece each week, to every member we email. I get to write something biblical, of relevance on a Wednesday, which will be read on a Wednesday. I get to encourage (and that is the only aim, to encourage) mid week, every week.
Consumerism would say, we will offer what is directly relevant for you, and you can ignore the rest; countering that mindset means seeing the relevance of it for someone else, and being delighted that itâs happening.
I see peopleâs eyes glaze over with a sequence of announcements. They reach for their mental âmuteâ buttons, or âfast forwardâ buttons, or whatever you do to get over the ads and into the programme.
People listen to our announcements with their guards up – itâs their habitual response to being told about something.
If you know what youâre praying for, youâll know why youâre announcing it.
Letâs pray for a non-weird revival, and letâs be ready to call the weird for what it is too.
All over the world, flagship Apple Stores are offering a free, immersive Augmented Reality experience; a walking Tour around six artworks, âanchoredâ in the area.
Iâm increasingly convinced that for lots of issues, the battle isnât over whether people know they ought to do something; they frequently just donât know how.
As both Ezra and Nehemiah show, the task of renewing, restoring, reviving the people was, and is, never-ending. However great the work has been in the past, Lord do it again.
This is about a style of church leadership that is built on multiplying disciples and churches, from one-to-one coaching all the way up.
Hutchmoot has just happened, in the UK for the first time. What, you ask, is a Hutchmoot? Well, let me tell you a story. In Nashville, Tennessee, lives the wonderfully talented Andrew Peterson. Heâs a novelist, and a publisher, and a family man, and he keeps bees, but he is also, and above all, a
