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Good to Great (Discipline, Flywheels, Core values, Goals)
A culture of discipline Collins recommends these four disciplines — 1) Focus on your Hedgehog. 2) Build a system of freedom and responsibility within a framework. 3) Manage the system, not the people. 4) Practice extreme commitment. Focusing on your … Continue reading
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On Fired Ministers Starting Competing New Churches
[Consider this a draft. I wrestle with the right and wrong of these issues, especially having had first hand experience with this circumstance — and having many friends caught up such situations as well. And so, maybe I’m missing something. … Continue reading
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Buried Talents: Deacons, Part 2
What can only deacons do? If we were to conclude that women cannot be deacons — other than wear the title, what is it that women could not do? In a congregation with no deacons, what is it that the … Continue reading
Gospel Advocate Creed: Don’t Let the Advocate Keep Us From Attending the World Convention
The June 2008 issue of the Gospel Advocate opens with an editorial from editor Neil W. Anderson, declaring that the Advocate counsels against participation in the 17th World Convention of Christian Churches, churches of Christ, and Disciples of Christ in … Continue reading
How Not to Have to Fire Your Preacher: Keeping the Right Guy, Part 2
i. Help your ministers stay out of financial trouble Well, it sounded good when I was typing it. I’m not entirely sure how to do this. Here’s one thought: Every church that’s large enough should have a standing committee of … Continue reading
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Surprised by Hope: The Rapture
The Second Coming is a doctrine we struggle with in the Churches of Christ. Years ago, in the 1940s and thereabouts, the Churches split over premillennialism. Almost all the Churches rejected the doctrine, with Foy Wallace making belief in the … Continue reading
Good to Great (Picking a Team, Building a Culture, Being a Hedghog)
Picking a team, building a culture Level 5 leaders can be slow to get started. They realize that they can’t be successful unless they’re surrounded by like-minded people. In church, this is much harder to do than in business. After … Continue reading
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Surprised by Hope: The Ascension
In N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope, he explains the significance of the ascension of Jesus in understanding the End Times. He notes that while only Luke records the event (twice!), it’s implicit in much of the rest of the … Continue reading
Buried Talents: Deacons, Part 1
I refer the reader to the excellent book Deacons: Male and Female? by J. Stephen Sandifer. Sandifer explains in great detail the history of deacons in the synagogues, the early church, and throughout history. The research on which this section … Continue reading
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How Not to Have to Fire Your Preacher: Keeping the Right Guy, Part 1
If you made a good hire, then you should feel sufficiently invested in the man that you will do what it takes to keep him. Now, ask yourself, as traumatic as leaving is on a family, why would a preacher … Continue reading
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