Pastors

If you’re in pastoral ministry, what do you think you’d miss most?

There are few things as sad as watching a once great church grow old, become irrelevant and slowly die.

One of the problems many churches face these days is that they’re neither great at things or terrible at things.

Wondering how to welcome church visitors? There are 10 things guests never want to hear, so why not help our church folks learn NOT to say them?

I put the statement on social media. The responses were voluminous. After a couple of days, I had to stop counting and tally the results. There were hundreds of them.

When we regularly expose ourselves to new ideas, new angles and new thought processes, we open the door to growth.

Congregations have to have a voice in the process of change.

It is normal to wonder if you are ready to move on to the next ministry assignment. Nobody wants to stay too long or leave too early, so we end up playing resume roulette by dropping hints and resumes.