A Major Permission Giving Mistake
From Bill Easum on our Advanced Forum (to join click here) One of the emerging problems for those doing permission-giving and allowing ministries to bubble up from a decentralized approach is that fact that every church has some core or basic ministries that must go on no matter whether someone comes forward to do them […]
How to Implement Permission Giving
From a participant on the Advanced forum (To join click here Dear Forum Colleagues: At Trinity Lutheran Church in west suburban St. Louis (Track 1), we are coming to the climax of the “visioning” or DNA formation process. We have our Core Values and Bedrock Beliefs solidly in place. In fact, they helped us weather […]
Permission Giving
From our Advanced Listserve (to join click here) More churches are using consensus instead of voting. One example, Epiphany Lutheran, Rock Hill, SC, is using consensus voting. Since moving to the permission-giving structure, they have not voted once, in any arena. They agreed that this was the best way. They do no have “congregational meetings,” […]
Pastor Parish Committee (UMC)
One of the biggest mistakes some UM Churches do is to turn the Pastor Parish Relations Committee into a Staff Parish Relations Committee. On the surface this sounds democratic and good. Everyone on the staff has direct access to the personnel committee. However, there are many ramifications of this decision and only one of them […]
Nursery
The nursery is one of the most important rooms in the church and should reflect the type of homes the parents have made for their children (or in some cases should be much better than). It should be on the same level as the worship area and should be located close to it. It should […]
The Problem with Traditional Music
In his book, Performing Rites, Simon Frith betrays the sin of much of the emphasis on classical and traditional music in the church. According to Frith, the distinction between classical (traditional) and contemporary (popular) music developed in 19th century Europe and North America. Prior to this time there was no differentiation between the two and […]