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Category Archives: Leadership
What Wrong With How We Do Church?: Problems with Authority
I found this on-line book by Andrew Strom helpful. Strom has spoken with many who’ve left the institutional church and quotes countless emails giving a sense of their discontent. Ultimately, however, Strom finds many who’ve left are so anti-authoritarian that … Continue reading
Posted in Organizing Your Church, Uncategorized, What's Wrong with How We Do Church
Tagged adult education, All, Andrew Strom, Bill Hybels, Greg Hawkins, Out of Church Christians, Reveal, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation, Willow Creek Community Church
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What’s Wrong With How We Do Church?: A Churchless Faith
Willow Creek is hardly the first to notice the large number of mature Christians leaving the institutional church. A Churchless Faith by Alan Jamieson (2000) is a study of this phenomenon. It’s out of print, but summarized here.The following are … Continue reading
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Tagged adult education, Alan Jamieson, All, Bill Hybels, Churchless faith, Greg Hawkins, Reveal, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation, Willow Creek Community Church
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What’s Wrong With How We Do Church?: The Trap We Find Ourselves In
One approach Hybels has suggested to the problem the Reveal study points up is for the church to teach people to be better able to feed themselves. The church should equip its members to study on their own. Now, I … Continue reading
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Tagged adult education, All, Bill Hybels, Greg Hawkins, Reveal, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation, Willow Creek Community Church
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What’s Wrong With How We Do Church?: Willow Creek’s Preliminary Solutions
Willow is just now beginning to release what they consider the solutions to the problems described in the last post.The most prominent idea is Bill Hybels’ plan to provide each member with an individualized spiritual growth plan. Now, just how … Continue reading
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Tagged adult education, All, Bill Hybels, Greg Hawkins, Reveal, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation, Willow Creek Community Church
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What’s Wrong With How We Do Church?: Willow Creek Rethinks How to Do Church
Most of you are familiar with the Willow Creek Church in suburban Chicago (they now refer to themselves as “Willow”). It’s a congregation of over 20,000 members pastored by Bill Hybels. He and his staff have written lots of excellent … Continue reading
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Tagged adult education, All, Bill Hybels, Greg Hawkins, Reveal, spiritual disciplines, spiritual formation, Willow Creek Community Church
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Helping your ministers avoid sexual sin
Sexual sin has been with the ministry for as long as anyone can remember. But the problem seems to have gotten worse. We live in a more sexualized culture. New demands and stresses are being placed on our ministers everyday. … Continue reading
The Preacher Caught in Sexual Sin
One of the greatest challenges facing the modern church is sexual sin within the ministry. I know this sounds exaggerated, but it’s not. In my experience, the number of male ministers who ultimately succumb and lose their positions is around … Continue reading
Preventing Child Abuse
The following expands on my notes on Business Law for Church Leaders. Increasingly, insurance companies are requiring churches to adopt child abuse prevention policies. These are very difficult to put together for several reasons. Some church members may see them … Continue reading
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An Agenda for a Visioning Retreat
Our elders and ministers recently scheduled a 7-hour retreat to consider some of the big-picture church issues. It went well, and so I’d thought I’d share an only-slightly edited version of our agenda, in hopes that other elderships might profit … Continue reading
On Building Community in a Congregation
In my last series of posts dealing with Richland Hills and the instrumental music controversy, I mentioned the importance of building community in a congregation. It’s certainly more important and more urgent than buying a piano. You can bring in … Continue reading
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