Notable Voices and the Week in Review: April 22, 2017
Five Ways Pastors Can Reverse Negative Sentiments in a Church
The Need for Church Replanting featuring Mark Clifton – Rainer on Leadership #320
Ten Common Sentiments Pastors Wish They Could Express
Churches, Social Media, and Customer Service
Four Keys to Creating a Healthy Staff Culture featuring Bryan and Shannon Miles – Rainer on Leadership #321
What if Your Kid Doesn’t Have Any Friends at Church? — Jenny Funderburke
Friendships between kids can be challenging regardless, but church is a different dynamic because of the limited amount of time kids spend there each week. It can be hard to make significant friendships in an hour or two a week. There are, however, things that you and I can do as parents that can better or even worsen the situation. If your child is expressing these thoughts, here are some tough questions to ask yourself as the parent:
5 Mistakes More Likely To Be Made By Small Churches Than Big Churches — Karl Vaters
Small churches are not just smaller versions of big churches. Every size has value, but different sizes serve different functions in the body of Christ. They also have different challenges and they tend to make different kinds of mistakes. Here are 5 mistakes that are more likely to be made by small churches than by big ones. The smaller, the more susceptible they are.
8 Reasons Church Conflicts Often Burn Out of Control Quickly — Chuck Lawless
As a pastor, I sometimes felt like I spent all my time putting out fires in the church. It might have been right for me to deal with the fires, but I seldom caught the fire before it started burning more brightly than I wanted. Here’s why the fires of church conflict often burn out of control quickly:
2 Ways Boredom Destroys Ministry Leaders — Eric Geiger
The apostle Paul challenged the young pastor Timothy to “pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16). We must watch both our lives and our teaching. Boredom in either can lead us away from the Lord.
5 Questions Leaders Should Be Asking All the Time — James E. Ryan
I believe there are some essential questions that are useful across a variety of contexts, including, and perhaps especially, the workplace. In fact, I gave a commencement speech last year on this topic, suggesting to students from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that there are really only five essential questions in life. Although the audience was future educators, I believe these questions are equally valuable for anyone in a position to lead or influence others.
When to Stop Chasing Your Dream — Michael Kelley
Dreams are wonderful things; they fill us with hope and optimism; they make us view every day with new possibilities and cause us to spring with joy at the prospect that “today might just be the day.” They are wonderful, that is, until they aren’t any more. It’s at that moment when you come face to face with the reality that maybe it’s actually not going to happen for you. But I want to propose that there is a time when it’s not only necessary but actually appropriate to stop chasing your dream. Here’s the reason why:
