Notable Voices and the Week in Review: March 24, 2018
Pastors Who Build Healthy Church Relationships Take the Initiative — Sam Rainer
Will you intimately know every person in your congregation? Of course not. Neither will you know every nuance of every passage in Scripture. But you still make the time to study a specific passage for your sermon preparation. The same initiative that applies to the study of Scripture also applies to relationships in the church. Why not also pick a family a week (or a month) to get to know better? Pastors who take the initiative build more relational bridges in the congregation.
U.S. Church Attendance May be Declining, But Not Among Evangelicals — Facts & Trends
Evangelicals definitely have problems to address, but they aren’t the Christian group in danger of extinction in the United States—that’s mainline Protestants. Many have spoken as if evangelicals are disappearing from the American religious landscape. According to analysis of the data from the General Social Survey, however, the share of Americans who attend an evangelical Protestant church has been consistent for the past 20 years.
Administrative Assistants: Church Member or Not? — Chuck Lawless
This debate has gone on for years. Should a church administrative assistant be a member of the same church, or is it better to hire someone from outside the church? Here are some of the arguments I’ve heard on both sides.
The Pastor and His Books — Craig Thompson
Pastors are people of the Book and people of many books. It is unavoidable. But what of these books of ours? How should we approach our reading? As a person who loves books and spends great a great amount of time and money investing in books, here are a few rules by which I try to live.
This Week at ThomRainer.com:
Five Reasons Monday Is So Tough for Pastors
Why are Mondays so difficult for pastors? Why do they have thoughts of resignation on this day more than others? I’ve heard five reasons consistently…READ MORE
Seven Potentially Deadly Church Sicknesses
Attitudinal Angst
Slippage Syndrome
Detail Distraction
Institutional Idolatry
Activity Acclimation
Purposeless Prayer
Detrimental Defensiveness
Culture Wins, featuring William Vanderbloemen
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe | Rainer on Leadership
http://media.blubrry.com/thomrainer/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/Episode416.mp3
Six Future Projections about Churches That Are Becoming Reality
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe | Rainer on Leadership
http://media.blubrry.com/thomrainer/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/Episode417.mp3
Six Things You Must Give Your Congregation to Have a Successful Revitalization
by Thom Rainer and Jonathan Howe | Revitalize & Replant
http://media.blubrry.com/revitalizereplant/s3.amazonaws.com/TheExchange/RevitalizeReplant/RR-Episode033.mp3
