by MTM Foundation | Aug 30, 2020 | Churches, Encouragement
Paul’s Spirituality of Non-Anxious Leadership – by Dr. Carlus Gupton COVID-19 is the great disrupter. Most church leaders are diligently reconceiving worship, community, giving, and helping. Concurrently, we have stark reminders of the unfinished work of racial...
by MTM Foundation | Dec 7, 2017 | Churches
By Charles H. Chandler In large multi-staff churches, forced termination of the pastor often involves bad staff relationships. When parishioners surround an associate minister (associate pastor, minister of Christian education, minister of music, or youth minister)...
by MTM Foundation | Dec 6, 2017 | Churches
By Charles H. Chandler John F. Kennedy, Jr., was killed on July 16, 1999, when the Piper Saratoga he was piloting plunged into the ocean near Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. His wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were killed also. Some speculate that he...
by MTM Foundation | Dec 6, 2017 | Churches
By Robert Perry There is a great deal of talk these days about church health. I think most of us welcome that terminology, because we grew weary of the constant emphasis on church growth that seemed to emphasize bodies, bucks and buildings. Intuitively, and now...
by MTM Foundation | Dec 6, 2017 | Churches
By Charles H. Chandler Chris Hedges states that after a period of time, war begins to develop its own life. The former theology student turned journalist wrote in his book, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, that those involved are able to perform superhuman acts...
by MTM Foundation | Dec 6, 2017 | Churches
By Charles H. Chandler Gerald L. Zelizer, writing in the February 21 issue of USA TODAY, suggests that church leaders should skillfully exclude from leadership roles that laity whom author G. Lloyd Rediger calls “clergy killers.” Though he acknowledges...