Articles for tag: Younger Leaders

November 9, 2020

This “Application” column goes with the Bible Lesson for Nov. 15, 2020: Teach What Is Appropriate (Titus 2:1-15) ________ By David Faust My 16-year-old granddaughter is learning how to drive. On a recent Sunday afternoon, I tossed Kayla the car keys and sat next to her in the passenger seat while she drove around our church’s empty parking lot. She practiced parallel parking, inching the car between the painted lines. At one point she accidentally hit the accelerator instead of the brake pedal and we sped toward the curb. As we jerked to a stop she exclaimed, “I’m sorry, Papa!”

June 6, 2012

Christian Standard

Church Leadership

What About Southeast?

By Darrel Rowland A renowned church leader wonders if Bob Russell stayed a little too long at Southeast Christian Church. The rapid growth of the megachurch in Louisville, Kentucky, plateaued a bit in Russell”s final two years there””he stepped down in June 2006″”and successor Dave Stone”s first two. Russell seemed a little slow to move to a multisite model, which in the past few years has sparked renewed growth to nearly 21,000 a week meeting in three facilities. And, frankly, near the end of his 40-year run at Southeast, Russell didn”t show as much energy as he did before. Who

March 22, 2011

Christian Standard

Christian Living

Another Statement About What”s at Stake

By Mark A. Taylor A longtime reader of CHRISTIAN STANDARD paid us a wonderful compliment earlier this year. “Thank you for giving us a magazine that makes us think,” he said. This likely would have seemed a small achievement just a generation or two ago. There was a day when many in the Christian churches and churches of Christ spent more energy defining orthodoxy than questioning tradition. But fresh winds are blowing today””new churches, growing congregations, multisites and multimedia and external focus””all of it energized by a crop of younger leaders sold out to finding new ways to evangelize. “It”s

February 11, 2009

Christian Standard

Conferences & Gatherings Organizations & Events

Another Visit with an Old Friend

ABy Mark A. Taylor s I get older I”m frequently surprised by the age of some people I”ve always considered young. Young people are getting older these days! Like Jeff Stone. I remember him well when he was a child. But now he”s the salt-and-pepper-headed president of this year”s North American Christian Convention. He said he wanted some perspectives from “younger leaders” for this special convention preview issue. Good idea. The only problem is that none of the writers this week is under 30, only two are under 40, and at least one of them is closer to 60. But

September 19, 2007

Christian Standard

Conferences & Gatherings Organizations & Events

Why Attend the North American Christian Convention?

By Mark A. Taylor CHRISTIAN STANDARD blogger Jennifer Taylor gave her answer to the question in a post this summer, excerpted below: Every time any conversation turns to the NACC, I hear three recurring comments. The first is that other events””many of them more helpful””exist for church leaders. The second is that the NACC is too expensive for many preachers to attend, especially those from smaller churches with less money to allocate for travel and professional development. The third is that the National Missionary Convention is becoming a preferred alternative. My responses: First, it”s true church leaders have more