Notable Voices and the Week in Review: January 21, 2017
Seven Questions to Ask if You Barely Receive a Positive Vote to Go to a Church
Marketplace Bivocational Ministry, featuring Jimmy Scroggins – Rainer on Leadership #294
Should a Staff Person Fill the Pulpit When There Is No Pastor?
Six Reasons to Consider Avoiding Cute Sermon Series Titles
Six Statements That Could Kill a Church – Rainer on Leadership #295
6 Must-Change Items That Are Hindering Your Career — Art Rainer
Whether you work in a church or a for-profit organization, there are a number of reasons why someone doesn’t advance in their career as they had hoped. Sometimes it has to do with an organization’s structure. Sometimes there are just simply limited opportunities. Those are beyond your control. But sometimes the stagnation in someone’s career is less about what they cannot control and more about what they can control, areas where change is possible. Here are six of them:
3 Goals in Preaching — Eric Geiger
So what is my aim in preaching? My good friend Ed Stetzer asked me that recently and it caused me to jot down some of my thoughts. One way to describe this sacred stewardship is “Teach Christ and the text in their context.” The aim is three-fold:
Pastor, You Need Some Friends — Rob Hurtgen
In a day and age when anyone can have thousands of followers on their myriad of social networks, it is time to build friendships. The following are three of the many biblical principles to embrace and apply towards building friendships.
The Top 7 Ways Leaders Demoralize Their Teams — Carey Nieuwhof
More than anything, your leadership will directly impact team morale. You’re either boosting team morale or demoralizing your team. It’s binary. If you think you’re being neutral, you won’t stay neutral for long. Left unattended, the air always leaks out of team spirit. I’ve seen a lot of leaders demoralize their teams without even knowing they’re doing it. And when I look back on my leadership, I realize I’ve done it in seasons too. Demoralizing your team happens primarily for two reasons.
How to Discern Your Next Ministry Move — Vanderbloemen Search Group
While in Troas Paul had a vision of a man from Macedonia (Greece) inviting him to come over there. The team talked it over (word “concluded” in Acts 16:10 means “to put it all together”) and decided that was what God wanted for their next ministry move. As one preacher said, “It is better to go to Troas with God, than anywhere else without Him.” What are some takeaways from this section of Scripture that can help guide us in our ministry transitions? Here are a few.
How to Ensure You Never Have Another Terrible Meeting — Michael Hyatt
If our teams are going to achieve major goals, we need to be able to plan, coordinate, and tackle problems together. The problem is that many meetings are the least productive use of our time, right?
