Daffy Duck rehearses his fencing moves in a classic Warner Brothers cartoon: "Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!" His forward thrust is followed by a "thwack!" as the foil bounces back in his face and bends his beak upward. Daffy folds his beak back into place and tries again. "Dodge! Spin! Thrust!" Thwack!
Every time, thwack!
Why is it that in ministry, as with Daffy, many a forward ...
Managing Complainers Addressing complaints head-on can stop potential damage. Mark Wheeler
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Church staff, board members, and leaders are natural lightning rods for complainers. Afraid of voicing objections publicly or confronting the pastor directly, the disgruntled can do great harm by focusing on the negative, or worse, spreading false rumors or information about those in leadership. To help avoid these outcomes, keep these important principles in mind:
"I may be old," said Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the end of his long life, "but I haven't stopped growing."
If an elderly man can have that perspective about reading law and philosophy, church leaders should have all the more such passion for the church of Jesus Christ, for we believe God is leading his people into the future. Here are four ways churches can keep growing:
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