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Elders Part 2: Making Decisions about Making Decisions
Most of the time, when men become elders, they have very little idea of what things are going to be like. What should they expect in meetings? What’s expected from them outside of the meeting room? What kinds of questions are … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ecclesiology, leadership, Practical Theology
Tagged church, ecclesiology, elders, elderships, leadership, meetings, shepherds
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Elders Part 1: The Value of Growing, Caring Shepherds
(Note: My faith tradition, the Churches of Christ, are organized into autonomous churches governed by multiple elders. In this series, I’m going to write some of my observations about how those elderships work, or don’t. If your faith tradition has … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Community, Discipleship, leadership
Tagged compassion, discipleship, elders, elderships, growth, leadership, pastoral care, shepherds
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Developing Church Mentalities
Our church, like many others, is working to broaden its self-understanding, particularly in terms of how we engage the particular community we live in. We want to move from an internally-focused, isolated church to one that is at work transforming … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Community, Community Engagement, Ecclesiology, leadership
Tagged church leadership, Community Engagement, leadership, mentalities, outreach, strategy
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Deborah’s song
This afternoon, when I turned to today’s reading in Project 4:4, a very simple pair of lines in the song of Deborah and Barak caught my eye in a new way: That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study, Devotional, leadership, Ministry, Old Testament
Tagged Deborah, leadership, project 4:4
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Knowing That I Don’t Know
One of the trickier parts of leadership is keeping in mind that I rarely know the whole story. I was thinking about that this morning as my class of High School seniors worked through the story of Achan in Joshua … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study, Joshua, leadership, Ministry
Tagged Achan, humility, leadership, project 4:4, wisdom
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Conan’s Farewell
I never thought I’d ever type these words, but I think Church leaders could learn a lot from Conan O’Brien. (Man, it even looks worse when I see it actually on the screen.) Over the last year, I’ve been thinking … Continue reading
Two Sermons
I’ve been trying to keep the Sermons page of the site updated whenever I preach, but there are a couple of sermons lately that I wanted to note, but hadn’t had the chance to work into the site yet, and won’t … Continue reading
This is very insightful, one of those sorts of things that seems obvious when you read it, but then you stop and think, “Yeah, but who’s working on fixing that problem with us?” wellthatsjustgreat: Most individuals imagine their value to … Continue reading
Lead From the Top of the Mood Elevator – Larry Senn
This is great stuff. Definitely worth reblogging! Thanks, greytshirt! …pocket card I always carry that has a graphic that we at Senn Delaney call “The Mood Elevator.” He studied it for a few moments. The higher mood levels included adjectives … Continue reading