by Charles Ridley | Mar 20, 2013 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Power mongers holding churches hostage to their personal agendas, intimidated membership too scared to speak up for fear of reprisal, holy wars spiraling out of control, cult-like ministries spewing bad theology, nasty undercutting placated by spiritual platitudes,...
by John Wasem | Feb 15, 2013 | Church Leadership, Coaching
Did you happen to see the video by Jefferson Behke entitled “Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus” on YouTube? It depicts Behke rhyming about the purity of Jesus and the hypocrisy of the church. It argues that Jesus preached love, but religion is rigid, phony, and...
by Charles Ridley | Feb 11, 2013 | Church Leadership
Whenever corruption, divisiveness, or dysfunction arrives on the scene, we justifiably shine the spotlight on the obvious: the perpetrators who directly carry out destructive behavior. They stand in the foreground of the drama. They also can serve as a distraction,...
by Steve Nicholson | Feb 6, 2013 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
When I was a young church planter my team and I spent countless hours trying to deal with the kinds of complicated pastoral situations that inevitably come up – marriages on the rocks, mental illness, interpersonal conflicts and such. It is amazing how much trouble a...
by Bob Logan | Nov 5, 2012 | Church Leadership
How do people change? That’s a question people have been wrestling with for ages. What constitutes real change and how do we get there? Many Christians would respond that change comes about through our interaction and encounter with God, the ways we experience him as...
