By John Albiston People choose to volunteer for many reasons. It’s not simply that many people have many reasons, it’s every person has many reasons. Some of those reasons are good and healthy reasons that will build and strengthen the volunteer relationship. Unfortunately some of those reasons will undermine and poison that same relationship. As …
By Tanner Hieta Churches and organizations view strategy and vision as the most important part of what they do. This includes things such as where they want their company to be in 5 years? How many people they want coming to their church by the end of the year? How can they make more money? …
By Jennifer Tribble Language is a huge part of your church culture. If you use insider religious language you communicate to the unchurched in a subtle but very powerful way that they aren’t one of us and they don’t really belong here. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to bring in unchurched visitors you …
Guest Post by Kelly Stickel Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sent a clear message of his support for gay marriage at the annual shareholders meeting last Wednesday in Seattle, telling an investor if he disagrees he should sell his shares and invest in some other company. This statement has created quite a stir among Christians on …
If you do these three things together your church will grow. Period. There’s a reason why they’re called laws and not tips or suggestions. When you do all three growth always happens. The good news is that these laws are simple and easy to remember. The bad news is that if they were easy to …
Guest post by Kelly Stickel Culture trumps vision every time. If your church has a vision to reach the unchurched, yet your culture is not not conducive to outsiders, your culture will win. One of the biggest influences on our church culture that can easily repel the unchurched is the order of our services. Here …
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Leaders of all kinds of organizations struggle with getting front-line staff and volunteers to implement change. While we’d all like to blame “stubborn people who just won’t get the vision”, more often than not the problem lies with the visionary leader and not his people. There are three basic ways why the vision can fail …
Back to Part 2 There are many possible systems a church can use to determine how to compensate their pastoral staff – some are good some are bad. Systems that don’t work Denominational Guidelines It’s not that denominational guidelines *can’t* work, it’s just that they usually don’t. The problem is that most existing guidelines aren’t …
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Back to Part 1 From the time of Constantine (325 AD) to the present there seems to be three separate ages and models of pastoral compensation: The Medieval Age (325-1500AD), The Reformed Age (1500-1900), and The 20th Century Collapse (1900-Present). The borders of these eras are pretty fuzzy depending on what country you’re talking about …
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Pastoral compensation is an issue that faces most churches, however most pastors never teach on the subject because they fear such teaching will appear self-serving. The result is that pastoral salaries are rarely based on Biblical principles. This clearly will not do. What we need to do is start with the teachings of Scripture, recognize …
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