Articles for tag: hiring

November 14, 2011

Christian Standard

Talking Church

By Dennis Bratton During a discussion about mentoring, talk turned toward the idea of a coaching cohort. The term coaching struck a cord of familiarity. I”d taken part in peer coaching for years. We didn”t call it that. It was just a group of preachers who got together once a year to talk church, play some golf, and talk church some more. The benefits of those connections were far-reaching in my ministry. I was in a growing church and regularly facing issues and challenges for which I often felt ill equipped. My best source of counsel came consistently from those

August 25, 2010

J. Andrew Keith

pastoral professionalism

Why Some Corporate Practices Should Have a Home in the Church

Pastoral Professionalism and Christian Ministry J. Andrew Keith argues that Christian leaders need not choose between faithful service and professional excellence. While churches are not corporations, ministers and elders can reclaim sound leadership practices as expressions of stewardship, mission, and service to Christ. Christian ministry should reject a false choice between professionalism and service. Churches should pursue excellence, accountability, and wise stewardship in staffing and programming. Strategic thinking can help congregations communicate the gospel clearly to their communities. By J. Andrew Keith (with Chris Keith) Several years ago, popular Christian writer John Piper warned ministers about the dangers of professionalism1.

June 22, 2008

Christian Standard

What Is an Elder”s Most Important Job?

By Arron Chambers Who is an elder supposed to be? The Bible makes it clear Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God”s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall

May 28, 2006

Ken Gosnell

cross-cultural ministry

Reaching Immigrants

Revelation pictures heaven as a multitude from every nation and language. Ken Gosnell offers practical “ACROSS” steps for churches to reach immigrants with acceptance, strategy, and culturally sensitive evangelism.

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