leadership in ministry
Whose expectations are you trying to meet? And why? People have expectations of us. At work our boss, our colleagues, our constituents, congregations or customers all have lots of expectations of us, each one as different as they are. Who sets these expectations and who decides when and if you have met or exceeded them? Read More …
I read an excellent article in today’s Telegraph by Brian Masters about Jon Venables, one of the two ten year old boys who horrifically murdered James Bulger 17 years ago. The article explores the reaction to Venables’ return to custody and who has the right to know. It also, perhaps more interestingly explores the reaction Read More …
Did you grow up in a Christian home? How do you know? Those were two of the questions which were posed by Lucy Moore during Messy Church training on Saturday. The assembled throng laughed nervously and made jokes about growing up in a bungalow and how they had never asked their house if it had Read More …
UP is a brilliant film. It’s funny, touching and insightful. Carl floats off in his house to avoid being sent to live in a nursing home. He promised his late wife that they would live at Paradise Falls and he tries so hard to make that happen. What he doesn’t see along the way is Read More …
Last night I was at an open evening at my kid’s primary school. Their work was on display and I was finding out what the ‘not much’ and ‘nothing’ they do all day is. Two things struck me. The first that there seems to be little room for initiative. I mean real initiative beyond using Read More …
‘Ministry’ fascinates me. Reading your thoughts on the ‘What are ministers for?‘ discussion leave me with a kind of split personality. I agree with almost everything written. I think ministry is a calling and that there is no job like it but I also think that it has been moulded and shaped through training, rules Read More …
I asked the same question about ministers so it seems only right that I ask the same question about members / people who attend church / adherents / punters (delete or insert as necessary). What are church members for? Is their role to turn up on a Sunday morning, sing, close their eyes at the Read More …