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| Five Working Groups: Reexamining the Way We Do What We Do |
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This article is intended to clear the confusion that exists around different working groups. A working group is any number of people assembled around a specific task or function.
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| Spiritual Gifts — Primacy, Not Priority |
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Paul does not write to prioritize spiritual gifts, but to explain the order in which they were revealed and employed in the church at Corinth.
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| Living Our Spiritual Gifts: The Challenge of Carl |
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Once in a great while God grants us the opportunity not only to hear the gospel, but also to meet it incarnate. For me, one such experience materialized in the form of a huge, lovable, mountain of a man named Carl.
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| Report on the Consultation on Scriptural Authority and the Nature of God's Revelation (PDF file) |
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| The Change of Nature, the Nature of Change |
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| Right Voices, Wrong Mouths |
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In pursuit of learning and growth, I find that God speaks in a broad and wondrous variety of ways. I listen to as many voices as I can to hear God's revealed wisdom. Quite often, the deepest wisdom comes from non-Christian sources.
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| Leaderships |
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Have you noticed the obsession with leadership that we seem to have in the church? It reflects the dual impression that leadership is critically important and that it is sorely lacking.
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| A Shift of Church-Shaking Proportions |
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Within the next three to five years, the most significant paradigm shift of this new young millennium will occur. For the first time ever, those of us born after 1946 (Boomers and beyond) will make up the majority of church members, church attenders, and church leaders.
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| Leaderships II |
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We have many capable men and women providing high quality leadership to the church, but is it the most appropriate leadership style for the context? Do our churches have to start over with each pastoral reappointment, or do they build upon each successive pastorate?
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| What is Your Church's Caring Capacity? |
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This article addresses the impact of growth and change on our "caring capacity."
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| When Faced with Two Options, Choose the Third |
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What if the current reality isn't a simple choice between holding onto the Christendom paradigm or embracing the Post-Christendom paradigm? What might the third option be?"
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| Outside the Box: Looking at Life Through Other Lenses |
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Our mission field is not to the mainstream middle-of-the-road alone, but to the whole spectrum of attitudes, ideas, values, and lifestyles existing in the world.
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| Fund Raisers: Pro and Con |
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| To Receive or Not to Receive, That Is the Question! |
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Establish working policies and agreements about what gifts are acceptable and appropriate, and what gifts are not — well in advance of the time you might receive them.
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| The Way of the Pilgrim 2001 |
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Amid hurried good-byes, Scott wagged his thumb and little finger at me and said, "You know. If you want to tell church leaders something important, tell them this: 'Stop trying to turn us into Christians and help us be like Christ instead.'" With that, he scooped up his backpack and was gone.
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| Training Outline for Wedding Coordinators |
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This resource is an outline of a training model for use with people charged with coordinating weddings in the local church.
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| Leadership Interaction Styles and Paint Cans? |
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It is easy to see how the different leadership styles might cause tension and conflict when mixed together. Our tendency is to settle on our way as the "right" way.
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