Meaningful Meetings
I spend a lot of my time in meetings – I mean a lot of time! As a pastor I find myself in multiple meetings every week of my life. However, there are two types of meetings that always make it into my weekly agenda. Every week I am in at least one large group worship...
Take a Conduct Inventory
Have you ever seen employees in a store walking up and down the aisles with a check list or iPad taking stock of their current products? Usually at the beginning of the year or month, companies determine how much inventory they have so they can decide how much they...
Are you committed?
Here is a great question: where is your commitment level to your local church? Okay, I know I just lost some people. But if you did click off of this post after that question, I actually did get an answer from you. If you are still reading but not very committed, you...
The Slow Death of Commitment
Here is an observation from thirty years of ministry. Every member of a church is either growing in his or her commitment to that church, dying in his or her commitment, or maintaining in his or her church commitment. Honestly, maintaining usually doesn’t happen that...