Leadership
Leadership Skills: Tools for Policy Impact (brilliant!)
The tools included here have been presented with the ‘context, evidence, links’ framework in mind, grouped under the headings Research Tools, Context Assessment Tools, Communication Tools, and Policy Influence Tools, plus an overarching framework section. This overview is not meant to be all-inclusive; there are several other tools available – for example within [...]
Pastor Burnout Statistics
You can easily find pastor burnout statistics all over the internet. Some are very overwhelming – like saying that 48% of pastors marriages end in divorce. I for one have my doubts about that one. As do I about quite a few numbers. I wish they were all true – because then my job of [...]
Stress and Burnout in Pastoral Ministry: A Prologue
A couple of years ago one of our Australian State Baptist Unions asked me to summarize what I’d learned in 30 years talking to pastors and ex-pastors. Here’s an excerpt from my introduction to the manual they commissioned me to write [1]. Today it’s both easier and harder to be a pastor. Easier, because we [...]
Leadership for success
(Note: applies to churches and their leaders too… Rowland). Equipping Your Nonprofit Board for Success Posted on January 5, 2011 Board member expectations are always a hot topic in this sector. Ask any nonprofit executive or development staff member and they’re likely to give you a laundry list of things their board could do better. [...]
Tribes: we need you to lead us
Seth Godin, Tribes: we need you to lead us (New York: Portfolio, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59184-233-0 Hardback, 151 pages Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, Coordinator of Leadership Training, Baptist Union of Victoria; Pastor, Auburn Baptist Church It is in our nature to gather in tribes. Seth Godin describes a tribe as a group of people connected to one [...]
Becoming a leader of no reputation
Saturday, 27 September 2008 11:28 – Last Updated Saturday, 27 September 2008 11:34 R. Scott Rodin is President of Rodin Consulting of Spokane, Washington and part of the John R. Frank Consulting Group of Seattle, Washington. R. Scott Rodin is the former president of Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. /Journal of Religious Leadership,/ Vol. [...]
Education for church and mission
This is not formatted well, but the content is quite challenging… Jesus and Paul trained their disciples by combining 1. information 2. individual counseling 3. group counseling 4. coaching towards independence 5. on the job training. Excellent article on Alternative Education Models for Church and Missions – **** Thomas Schirrmacher An Appeal for Alternative Education [...]
Growing Together in Spirituality: Pastor and Parish Have a Check-Up
Parish clergy today are caught in a dilemma with regard to their role as pastors. Some voices are urging us to forsake entirely the use and connotation of the nouns “pastor” and “flock,” arguing that such conceptions have no place in a world come of age. Yet the understanding of the clergy as guides in [...]
Preaching is Primary
Preaching is Primary Christian Standard Magazine, Reflections Section An Interview of Dr. Myron J. Taylor by L.D. Campbell Preaching has always been primary in our churches. Our churches have produced some great preachers, men whose names are synonymous with preaching. Myron Taylor is one of the great preachers in our brotherhood. He recently retired from [...]
The Messiah Trap
Exercise – Say yes and no to one another Are we motivated by call or compulsion? (Good question to take to a spiritual director) Messiah trap = a deadly and deceiving two-sided lie = need to save others. – Side 1: If I don’t do it, it won’t get done – Side 2: Everyone else’s [...]
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