Shalom!
The current Lewis Center for Church Leadership email newsletter offers this article:
http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/leaddocs/2008/100908_article.html .
I like it! So often churches do not seem to know why or how persons give, and the churches do not seem to know how to ask for money or express gratitude for gifts. This writer gives wonderful practical advice!
Shalom!
dave
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
'Tis the season for UM pastoral (and congregational) transitions!
Shalom!
I received an email recently with my Lovett Weems newsletter from the Lewis Center for Leadership Development. The subject is pastoral transitions, and both articles look very, very helpful to me! Wish I had been able to use them as a checklist a year plus a few months ago as I prepared for retirement.
http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/issues/2008issues/210508.html
In about half of the transitions of which I was a part the person who followed me could not or would not meet with me. This seemed a bit strange to me, but some follow the "clean slate" theory of change, I suppose.
Shalom!
dave
I received an email recently with my Lovett Weems newsletter from the Lewis Center for Leadership Development. The subject is pastoral transitions, and both articles look very, very helpful to me! Wish I had been able to use them as a checklist a year plus a few months ago as I prepared for retirement.
http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/issues/2008issues/210508.html
In about half of the transitions of which I was a part the person who followed me could not or would not meet with me. This seemed a bit strange to me, but some follow the "clean slate" theory of change, I suppose.
Shalom!
dave
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
New for Spring . . . or Summer
Shalom!
Well, it's been a long time! I'm planning to invest more time in this blog, as I have gotten burned out on another site! Of course, with this medium, I have no idea, really, if anyone is reading . . . .
Back to some basics: some suggestions picked up here and there, and comments about life in the church today.
Shalom!
dave
Well, it's been a long time! I'm planning to invest more time in this blog, as I have gotten burned out on another site! Of course, with this medium, I have no idea, really, if anyone is reading . . . .
Back to some basics: some suggestions picked up here and there, and comments about life in the church today.
Shalom!
dave
Monday, January 21, 2008
Ethical preaching
Shalom!
Here's an Alban link about preaching:
http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=5604
I think it offers some excellent points about the integrity of preaching.
As I reflect on responses to my preaching, I think folks valued what might be called my transparency, my willingness to offer testimony from my own experience. Not because my experience or my insights were so wonderful, but because I was speaking from experience, not the commentaries or somebody's essay. And, as the article points out, we are pretty limited in our context. Hence, my preaching, I hope, was also characterized by a great deal of humility.
As I get older, I understand how little I know. And it doesn't bother me much. A friend has a cap which offers this advice: "Question authority!" I agree. If I were to wear an advice cap these days, it would probably offer this advice: "Embrace ambiguity!"
Shalom!
dave
Here's an Alban link about preaching:
http://www.alban.org/conversation.aspx?id=5604
I think it offers some excellent points about the integrity of preaching.
As I reflect on responses to my preaching, I think folks valued what might be called my transparency, my willingness to offer testimony from my own experience. Not because my experience or my insights were so wonderful, but because I was speaking from experience, not the commentaries or somebody's essay. And, as the article points out, we are pretty limited in our context. Hence, my preaching, I hope, was also characterized by a great deal of humility.
As I get older, I understand how little I know. And it doesn't bother me much. A friend has a cap which offers this advice: "Question authority!" I agree. If I were to wear an advice cap these days, it would probably offer this advice: "Embrace ambiguity!"
Shalom!
dave
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