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June 18, 2013
One word that will revolutionize your decision making
AND Image Credit: Julia Manzerova via Compfight Three letters. A simple conjunction. It coordinates two items of equal syntactic importance. Use it to replace another conjunction when framing an important decision. Instead of OR, use AND. Interim pastors often have to train lay leaders how to make good decisions. Teaching them to use this word [...]
Continue reading... June 17, 2013
7 advantages interim pastors get from a journal
There is one good reason why interim pastors should journal regularly. When they do, they enjoy seven ministry advantages. The one reason you should maintain a professional journal is because every once in a while you’ll run into a problem where you’ll be your own best advisor! When that happens your advice to yourself will [...]
Continue reading... June 12, 2013
How to accelerate church unity and leadership development at the same time
How do you get everyone in the church headed in the same direction when the lay leaders aren’t up to the challenge? Interim pastors often find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, you need to help the congregation own the transition process. On the other hand, the lay leaders don’t [...]
Continue reading... June 10, 2013
Put the past in the past and focus on the future: how interim pastors do it
An interim pastor must focus the church’s attention on the future, but that may require dealing with old wounds. Before you can push a stalled car forward you may have to roll back a bit to remove a stone blocking the front tire. Peter Megyeri via Compfight The assessment report is the the best place [...]
Continue reading... June 4, 2013
10 reasons interim pastors rock
They leave before it is expedient that they take a powder They have enough good sermons to last for the transition period They help church folks define their own ministry vision They are stalwart folk; you can shoot ’em and they keep on going They love training people to succeed in ministry They don’t panic [...]
Continue reading... May 31, 2013
3 Steps to winning sermon applications
How do you craft a killer sermon payload (the application) that pierces the hearts, inflames the minds and precipitates resolve in your audience? You visualize the goal. I’m an expository preacher by conviction and by experience. I’m also a bit of a geek. I love grammar and syntax, I love tracing the argument of a biblical [...]
Continue reading... May 30, 2013
Do you know the 7 marks of discipleship?
Can you give a clear, concise and biblically accurate description of a disciple of Jesus? If so, you are a select member of an elite club. Image Credit: muha/123RF Stock Photo I wonder if most ministers – let alone most Christians – really know what their ministry’s “finished product” is supposed to look like? I’m [...]
Continue reading... May 29, 2013
Preparing a new research project into values
A colleague and I are a survey instrument to research how the values of growing churches (conversion growth) compare to those of plateaued or declining churches (little or no conversion growth). The objective of the study is to determine if there is a discrete set of values that distinguishes growing churches. The primary tool will [...]
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