by Wade Berry | Aug 12, 2016 | Counseling, Ministry, Psychology, Theology
Last week, we discussed the contributions that Christian eschatology can make to pastoral care. This week, I would like to offer a couple of cautions for those who would like to use Christian eschatology as a tool in their pastoral ministry. As we noted last week,...
by Wade Berry | Aug 5, 2016 | Counseling, Ministry, Theology
Last week, we discussed the implications of Christian eschatology for discipleship. For the next couple of weeks, I would like for us to discuss the ways in which Christian eschatology can be useful for pastoral care. In today’s post, I describe four contributions...
by Chris Sims | Jun 16, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
This week my blog takes a turn to a near rant. However, the rant comes out of a heart of healing from the damaging statement ‘We aren’t being fed’. You never hear this from a new follower of Christ but you may often hear it from those that have spent a lifetime...
by Stephen Suffron | Apr 26, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
It’s easy to confuse activity for ministry. We can be very busy doing various aspects of church work, and yet fail to minister to anyone. When your church is small, there are only a few people to do this work, and it is easy to focus on tasks and just...
by Stephen Suffron | Mar 1, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
Three to four years. According to research by Thom Rainer, that is how long, on average, a pastor stays at a church. And since that figure is an average, that means there are great numbers of pastors whose tenure is two years or less. In the small and country church...
