Articles for Pastors

A friend asked me once to name the things I do as a leader because I have to, but don’t necessarily like to. He even had a term for it. He called it the “underbelly of leadership.”

Too many church leaders are running too quickly to optimize the latest communication tools to reach people in their community while they are ignoring “low hanging” fruit.

So why is the children's minister position in such demand? The Church Answers community let us know, with most of the responses fitting in one of five categories.

Is the church in trouble? No. Not if we are willing to continue to change. In fact, I genuinely believe our best days are ahead.

Many pastors don’t spend enough time thinking about how to minister to the children in their congregation.

One of the best ways to lead a team is to show them a map of where you're headed.

You will become a fundamentalist Christian when you elevate your doctrinal system too highly and start to believe God’s graces are found only within your narrow little camp.

Every man has been told that women want us to “listen” instead of trying to solve their problems, and that’s a fair request. But wives need to know that holding back from problem solving is literally (that is, physiologically) painful to a man.