In this webinar, Leadership Conversations with Mark Ramsey, Mark discusses some of the questions every church should be asking. Watch webinar and find out more....
In this webinar, Leadership Conversations with Mark Ramsey, Mark discusses some of the questions every church should be asking. Watch webinar and find out more....
For the last several weeks, we have been considering what could make church board meetings feel like church, instead of all the other meetings in our lives....
Of course, settling and opening are not mutually exclusive actions. But then, why do so many of our church board meetings proceed as if they are?...
There have been countless times I have been so tempted to have t-shirts printed with that emblazoned on the front in bold, neon letters and distribute them among every church committee or board with whom I have worked. It’s not about more information....
What does the church have that culture doesn’t have? More importantly, what does the church have that culture shows absolutely no interest in having?...
That is the understandable question that church board members ask when their meetings begin to tilt toward Bible study, discussion of articles about the nature of God’s church, and prayer. Of course, church being church, rare is the occasion that any board member will speak...
“We learn to praise God not by paying compliments, but by paying attention,” Frederick Buechner once wrote. It’s an excellent guideline for church board meetings....
If we feed people spiritually, all the true institutional needs of a congregation will be taken care of. I think the corollary is also true: congregations can organize, plan, arrange, recruit, announce and invite folks to all types of things, but if the deep spiritual needs...
The hurricane that is bearing down on the east coast as I write this, the earthquakes that have shaken Japan, the spilled cargo of an 18-wheeler that snarls traffic for hours on your way to work—these are bad, potentially dangerous disruptions....