Lose Your Job. from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. Travis Reed sits down with Sally Morgenthaler and discusses the provocative idea of church leadership. I thinks she asks some pretty interesting questions regarding the space of being a pastor. What do you think?
The Continuing Problem With Restoring Pastors
I still love Ted Haggard. Out of Ur recently posted the announcement that Ted Haggard is starting a church. And some people are not happy about it. It seems we’re still wrestling with the same problem. We don’t really know how to restore our leaders. If Haggard has done one thing it has been to …
Would Peter Get Hired
I had a strange thought this morning. Would the Apostle Peter get hired as a pastor? I have an RSS feed for Pastor jobs in my Google Reader. And I consistently see the same job posting for Pastor. They typically list qualifications for the role which include something like: A committed Christian with an exemplary …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
A guy I follow offered the following quote from Bill Hybels. I don’t have the exact source but I have to believe it is true. “The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.” – Bill Hybals Do you buy that statement?
Things I Noticed In The Nines
This is an on-going update on free The Nines conference. It will be updated as the conference goes. ——————————————————————————————————- Scott Hodge has more energy than the Energizer Bunny and I like it. Dave Ferguson talked about the five steps in apprenticeship. But he never mentioned what someone does. In the first 90 minutes not one …
The Professional Christian
I have a friend who is a pastor. And sometimes I think he secretly wishes he could dump the label. One of the tensions I see in the church is the dichotomy between the pastor and the members of the church. The system is actually designed to help foster this tension. There’s a guy up …
The Professional Christian
I have a friend who is a pastor. And sometimes I think he secretly wishes he could dump the label. One of the tensions I see in the church is the dichotomy between the pastor and the members of the church. The system is actually designed to help foster this tension. There’s a guy up …
Restoring Fallen Leaders
I have a friend who is a disgraced pastor. He’s still trying to recover from the experience. He’s lost most of his friends and is struggling to understand how to put his life back together. There’s nothing simple to his story. It wasn’t a simple fall that is so easy to categorize. There were many …
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