Pastors and key leaders scratch their heads and wonder, How will we motivate our congregation?
In the post-war culture of the 1950s, when social conformity delivered people to the church, leaders could motivate based on challenge, reasonability, and commitment. In our churches today, these motivators are still the most frequently employed, but they no longer work. When someone ...
Perhaps here we should paraphrase John, suggesting that if every leadership principle available in the Gospels or in Acts were written down, the whole world might not have room for the books that would be written (John 21:25). But several principles stand out with piercing impact for today's church:
Leadership is servanthood. A servant is a person who submits her own will in order to please her master—and others—without any assurance of reward. Someone once asked Lorne Sanny how it is possible to know whether one functions as a servant. Sanny replied, "By the way you react when people treat you like one."
Falling in Love with Jesus The essential first step in growing a church missions program. with Lyle Dorsett
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Lyle W. Dorsett, Ph.D., serves as senior pastor of Church of the Great Shepherd in Wheaton, Illinois, a church he helped found nearly four years ago. He is also Professor of Evangelism and Spiritual Formation at Wheaton College and Graduate School, and has written several books, including A Passion for Souls: The Life of D. L. Moody (Moody, 1999). Lyle and his wife, Mary, founded and direct Christ ...
Pastors and key leaders scratch their heads and wonder, How will we motivate our congregation?
In the post-war culture of the 1950s, when social conformity delivered people to the church, leaders could motivate based on challenge, reasonability, and commitment. In our churches today, these motivators are still the most frequently employed, but they no longer work. When someone says to me, "Dr. Callahan, ...
ARTICLE Missions Here are practical implications for your church on following Jesus' Great Commission. from BuildingChurchLeaders.com
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BIBLICAL BASIS FOR MISSIONS
Christian Mission in the Modern World by John Stott
Older but foundational for the principles and purposes of world missions. (InterVarsity, 1976; ISBN 0877844852)
Changing the Mind of Missionsby James F. Engel & William A. Dyrness
Engel and Dryness ask the American church to adopt strategies that ...
POWERPOINT Missions Jesus gave clear instructions in his Great Commission, but what are the practical implications for your church? This theme takes a look at biblical examples of missions work and tells how to develop a missions policy for your church. by BuildingChurchLeaders.com
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