From Baptist News Global By Jeff Brumley Just a few years ago, Eddie Hammett says, the subject of deacons in the free church tradition started coming up in much of the congregational consulting and coaching work he was doing. Many churches — and plenty of deacons —...
From CT Pastors By Karen L. Miller To say this church plant was unlikely would be an understatement. We had our family, one other family, and five people in their seventies. Sitting on a folding chair in the living room, I realized, If we are going to have a church,...
Disciple Making Is Still the #1 Problem Facing the Church Today From The Effective Church Today By Bill Tenny-Brittian Counting Counts Recently a troll caught one of our posts about radical disciple making and took it out for an attempted thrashing. To be honest, I...
Don’t avoid conflict, avoid triangles By Doug Bixby From The Christian Century When my brother was a regional manager for a large corporation, a top-level executive came to visit him at his office. During the visit, my brother shared some of his ideas about the...
5 reasons, despite the resistance, to set goals rather than merely to make plans. By Scott Scruggs From Leadership Journal Years ago I noticed a certain pattern in the ministry I was leading. Every summer our leadership team would meet to plan for the upcoming year....
