I asked ChatGPT for help – here’s what happened
Tag: leadership
The problem I had with the school Assembly was that I hadn’t built a machine to make Assemblies. I was starting from scratch each time, and I was wasting time, energy and focus in the process.
We pastors are in the encouragement business. The cheering-up and cheering-on business.
What happens to our Christian pastoring, and our own Christian discipleship, if everything is filtered through a film of glass?
Let me share something blindingly simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that it’s taken me until I’m old enough to have a bus pass (US readers, = old enough to remember the moon landing) to spot it. Thinking is really important. #Leadership #thinking #pastor
I was ordained forty years ago today. Was it worth it?
There are a lot of new people who don’t know what ‘normal’ looks like in your church. So what’s the plan?
We can now see more clearly what’s been happening to churches in the UK, pre and post lockdown.
I admit to becoming increasingly aware of envy, and it is ugly. And I’ve started to notice a pattern, which you might recognise, and maybe a way through.
Just because pressures are common or even fun doesn’t mean they carry no weight .We aren’t immune.
I’m delighted that The Gift is now available to buy. I wrote it because decent, biblical leadership is a deep need in our churches, and one we are failing to meet. Had working pastors are preaching good sermons – and leaving the teaching there. Or, knowing that there’s work to do, they reach for the
What is it about the patterns of being Christians together, that lays us open to spiritual abuse – both as perpetrators and victims?
Each one had constructed a ring-fenced zone, where sin could roam free but still safely caged. Had none of them watched Jurassic Park?
Even the best of us can get caught in a bitterness of spirit, whether to an individual, a group, a type or even a whole church.
Thermometers can tell you what’s happening, but they can’t change anything. Enter the thermostat.
The team leader looked me straight in the eye. “I’m only here because someone took a risk with me when I was his age. I want to do for him, what someone did for me.”
The culture sees independence as maturity, but for us that’s not good enough. Interdependence is maturity.
I’ve just watched a small team have a bit of a wobble. They didn’t crash – the event they planned went smoothly in the end, and no-one outside the team would have spotted that there was a problem. But there was, and it’s easily solved.
I keep a list of preachers I run through as I am preparing a sermon. Particular preachers have gifts and emphases I want to learn to copy, and I find it really helpful having a physical document to print off, where I can force myself to see whether or not I have addressed each critical issue. The
In every leadership task there’s an easy part and a hard part – and they just keep on coming
