by George Welty Many churches tacitly celebrate their pastors being overworked. We might not say it out loud, but the culture exists: tired equals faithful, busy equals devoted, exhausted equals fruitful. Many in the pews have never glimpsed the inward weight of ministry — the spiritual fatigue, the emotional weariness, and the continual burden […]
Archive for Continual Learning
Authors : George Welty
Tags : Continual Learning, Work Life Balance
by Shannon Rains “That is not the way we’ve always done it.” “We’ve tried that before; it didn’t work.” “Let’s stick with what we know works.” Like many of you, I have sat in countless leadership meetings. The same agenda items seemed to find their way back, meeting after meeting, shaping the conversation like […]
Authors : Shannon Rains
Tags : Continual Learning, Growth Mindset
by Scott Laird Robert Clinton once noted that only thirteen out of forty-nine Bible leaders he studied “finished well.” In other words, just one out of every three or four ended their leadership journey in a healthy way (The Making of a Leader, 2nd ed., 187). By 2012, Clinton had reviewed around 3,500 case […]
Authors : Scott Laird
Tags : Continual Learning
by Scott Laird Robert J. Clinton researched and wrote a lot about leaders and leadership development. The theory connected to his work is “Leadership Emergence Theory” based on research of biblical characters and modern Christian leaders. By 2012 he had processed over 7,000 case studies.[1] His theory argues that God works in sovereign and providential ways […]
Authors : Scott Laird
Tags : Continual Learning, Finishing Well
by Rodney Plunket In exploring the biblical narrative of Exodus, we uncover a thought-provoking pattern of the Israelites’ wavering faith in their leaders, Moses and Aaron, as they journey through the desert. This pattern serves as a powerful example of the dynamics of leadership and followership within a church family. Through a careful examination of […]
Authors : Rodney Plunket
Tags : Continual Learning
by Steven Carrizal The pastoral role of church leaders is a calling that puts us on holy ground as we are invited into a space of vulnerability. It is also a role for which it is easy to continually feel ill-equipped no matter how much training or experience a leader has in such situations. From […]
Authors : Steven Carrizal
Tags : Continual Learning, Listening
by Greg Anderson I love to learn. This was not always the case. As a younger minister, I was naïve enough to think I had most of it figured out and did not really need a bunch of other perspectives to influence the surety of my insights. How very wrong I was, and how I […]
Authors : Greg Anderson
Tags : Continual Learning
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