Notable Voices and the Week in Review: January 20, 2018
Five Common Barriers to Becoming a Simple Church
Virtual Culture and the Church – Rainer on Leadership #398
Is the Digital or Internet Church Really the Church?
How to Explain to Guests That You’re Replanting a Church – Revitalize & Replant #024
Should You Count Online Viewers as Worship Attendees? – Rainer on Leadership #399
Join me January 29, 2018
6 Reminders on the Importance of Pastoral Leadership — Erik Reed
I have pastored The Journey Church for twelve years. In that time, I have found it easier to focus on theology and put leadership as a secondary matter. I created a list several years ago to remind myself how important it was for me as pastor to lead the church well. The list is not exhaustive, but it helped me. I hope they can be of help to others too.
Why Worship Pastors and Lead Pastors Should Meet Weekly — Sam Rainer
Every Monday at 4:00 p.m., I meet with both my worship pastors. We review the previous Sunday. We discuss the upcoming Sunday. We laugh together. We hold each other accountable. Sometimes I sing their worship set back to them because I have the voice of a senile cat and it annoys them. This meeting is critical for several reasons.
12 Reasons People Stay in a Struggling Church — Chuck Lawless
In our consulting work, we often talk with people who are seriously frustrated with their church – but who stay there anyway. Here are some of the primary reasons folks give us for staying when they don’t like all that’s happening in their church:
How Pastors Can Model and Teach What God’s Word Says About Financial Stewardship — Randy Alcorn
How we manage God’s money is a central biblical subject of extreme importance. Hence, financial stewardship should be unapologetically addressed by Christian leaders—we who are called upon to declare “the whole counsel of God” to the people He entrusts to our care.
4 Reasons for Pastors to Guard Their Hearts — Jason Allen
Upon sober reflection, we are reminded of how dangerous our sin nature truly is; and that Total Depravity is not just a theological point, but a malignancy within each one of us. Therefore, we must intentionally guard our hearts, and one way of doing that is to meditate on the catastrophic ruin that accompanies sexual sin.
The Best Preacher in the World — David Murray
Every church needs two preachers. We need a human preacher, one who is visible, audible, tangible. But we also need a divine preacher, one that is invisible, inaudible, and intangible. I’m speaking of the Holy Spirit, without whom the work of the human preacher is in vain.
