Notable Voices and the Week in Review: May 27, 2017
Five Reasons Church Members Attend Church Less Frequently
10 Things Church Members Want from Their Pastor – Rainer on Leadership #330
Five Steps to Respond to a Hurtful and Hateful Email
Six Details to Include in Your Church Staff Bios
Top Seven Regrets Most Pastors Have – Rainer on Leadership #331
How to Respond When There’s a New Church on the Block — Dave D’Angelo
So you just heard the news that a new church or campus is opening up in your town … how do you respond? We’d be lying if we said our immediate response was always a pure kingdom-minded celebration. My conversations with pastors who experience this same scenario often include sentiments like:
3 Ways Online Giving Helps Your Church — Art Rainer
Online giving is safe, convenient, and consistent. Church members like knowing that they no longer have to worry about whether or not they remembered to bring their checkbook on Sunday. Their tithe was already taken out of their bank account. Online giving does not just help church members. Churches can benefit from online giving as well. Here are three ways online giving helps your church:
Three Relational Connections That Will Benefit Any Pastor — Kevin Campbell
The thing about ministry is it involves people. People are imperfect including you and me. It’s why Jesus spent time ministering to the crowd but also spent time in solitary with His Father. Solitary moments feed our souls. The opposite is isolation. It doesn’t feed our soul. It dries it up. When you go through difficult seasons in ministry the temptation is to isolate. If there is one thing I have learned in ministry, it’s we can’t do life alone! We need to make and keep the right connections in our lives to sustain us for the long haul.
6 Basic Email Observations from Leading a Team — Eric Geiger
Few things are as lamented as email and staff meetings. And yet, both are very important in communicating, in ensuring execution, and in keeping work moving forward. They are, however, lamented for a reason. Poorly led meetings and poor email practices waste immense amounts of time and energy. Here are six basic email observations from leading a team:
What’s the Best Way for a Pastor to Negotiate His Salary? — Dave Harvey
It’s the “salary strain,” an occupational hazard that seems to come with ministry. If navigated unwisely, it can introduce suspicion and stall the church’s momentum toward the future. So what’s the best way for a pastor to negotiate his salary? Here are six thoughts I hope will be helpful. Salary negotiations move toward wisdom when the pastor…
How To Handle Church Staff Layoffs — Nicole Cochran
No matter how you put it, layoffs are hard. Whether you work for a church or in the corporate world, facing termination is met with difficult conversations, heightened emotions, and an incredible opportunity for grace to triumph. So if your church is in the middle of budget cutting and eliminating positions looks inevitable, how do you handle it?
