Mission Statements
Five good books for creating a Mission Statement: The Path, by Laurie Beth Jones, New York, NY, Hyperion, 1996 Managing By Values, by Ken Blanchard and Michael O’Connor, San Francisco, Berrett- Koehler Publishers, 1997**** Building A Shared Vision, C. Patrick Lewis, Portland, OR, Productivity Press, 1997 Built to Last, James Collins, and Jerry Porras, Harper […]
Worship in Postmodern World
Worship in a Postmodern Culture Alan Roxburgh compares the lingering Christendom mindset among relevance-challenged clergy to a pleasure ride on the river Seine. Picture, if you will, an ecclesiastical barge filled with graying church leaders, who, – between discussions about historical criticism, incomprehensible invocations, and hopelessly obtuse prayers – nod approvingly as the edifices of Christendom’s […]
Reconstructing Ministry
The following was the introduction to one of our online coaching seminars. Reconstructing Ministry Around Paul’s Missionary Band By Dan Reeves Click here to enter the forum after April 8. I love the EBA format with all its elevated learning and widespread rippling of seminal ideas. I also am impressed by the common threads which […]
Suicidal
Lemmings are those darling rodents that live in the Arctic Circle and look a bit like a hamster but have a strange suicidal habit. These little guys have a built-in sense of when their numbers are too numerous for their own good. When there are too many of them in a herd and their food […]
Creating Missional Communities
IntroductionHi! Welcome to Our Seminar- Creating Missional Communities: Implications of Re-Hearing the Church’s Story. I am your host, Todd Hunter. Thank you for participating, and thanks also to Easum, Bandy & Associates for linking us together for this online coaching seminar. I look forward to our conversation and pray that the Holy Spirit will teach […]
Musings on Art and the relationship to Worship
There is a phenomenon in churches today—yes, yet another one. The arts and worship. I’m hearing about it, I’m experiencing it. I am even teaching it. And I am worried about it, a bit. I suppose we are “a ways off” from church leaders completely usurping it, because focusing on the arts in worship […]