By John Albiston Have you ever seen churches of the living dead? From a distance they almost look like the living – they move and shuffle about and even occasionally moan and make some noise. But up close you’ll see they have no vision, no passion, no plan, and definitely no new life. Unlike the …
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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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Matthew 25:18 But the servant who received the one bag of silver dug a hole in the ground and hid the master’s money. A new perspective on your church finances can open up some exciting new leadership opportunities and will dramatically turn up the heat on your evangelism efforts. Unfortunately church budgeting and finances …
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One should proceed with some amount of caution when you zig when everyone else zags – which is exactly what I have done when it comes to developing an exit strategy for my church staff. It might be a good idea to take what I say with a grain of salt, because what I am …
Some our mistakes are made simply because they seemed to be a good idea at the time. One hiring mistake made frequently by churches not only seems to be a smart thing to do, but the right thing to do. This is what I would call the compassionate hire or the hire out of pity. …
Let’s face it. While email promised to make our lives so much easier, most of us find ourselves buried under a mountain of the stuff. If you take a look at our inboxes you will find hundreds if not thousands of messages clogging up our lives. The scary thing is that once a message has …
