Ministry Helps
Define Your Ministry Carefully!
I often tell preachers, “Be careful how you define your ministry.” For many, “ministry” quickly becomes shorthand for a weekly appointment, a pulpit, a title, and a church calendar packed...
Define Your Ministry Carefully!
I often tell preachers, “Be careful how you define your ministry.” For many, “ministry” quickly becomes shorthand for a weekly appointment, a pulpit, a title, and a church calendar packed...
Navigating LGTBQ Issues in the Local Church
LGBTQ advocates often use civil and criminal courts to pressure and silence religious objectors. Consequently, churches should be proactive in anticipating and addressing practical and legal challenges coming with rapid...
Navigating LGTBQ Issues in the Local Church
LGBTQ advocates often use civil and criminal courts to pressure and silence religious objectors. Consequently, churches should be proactive in anticipating and addressing practical and legal challenges coming with rapid...
To Incorporate or Not to Incorporate?
Religious congregations have essentially two options regarding legal organization. First, they can exist as informal associations, i.e., bodies of persons acting together in pursuit of a common enterprise, but without...
To Incorporate or Not to Incorporate?
Religious congregations have essentially two options regarding legal organization. First, they can exist as informal associations, i.e., bodies of persons acting together in pursuit of a common enterprise, but without...
On the Importance of Bylaws
Perhaps many Christians do not understand the importance of bylaws. Some perceive them as a legal formality foisted upon churches as a consequence of incorporation, a sort of “necessary evil”...
On the Importance of Bylaws
Perhaps many Christians do not understand the importance of bylaws. Some perceive them as a legal formality foisted upon churches as a consequence of incorporation, a sort of “necessary evil”...
A Word of Entreaty to Church Elders
Dear shepherds, if you won’t lead us, then we cannot progress as we should. Managing the treasury and saying yes or no to this or that is not the same...
A Word of Entreaty to Church Elders
Dear shepherds, if you won’t lead us, then we cannot progress as we should. Managing the treasury and saying yes or no to this or that is not the same...
A Word of Compassion for Preachers
What a profound and undeserved privilege it is to minister to the Word of God and invest in others on Jesus's behalf! What joy is ours when we see people...
A Word of Compassion for Preachers
What a profound and undeserved privilege it is to minister to the Word of God and invest in others on Jesus's behalf! What joy is ours when we see people...