We are facing a ministerial crisis, meaning we are at the beginning of a massive shortage of qualified pastors...
I've been noticing the signs of it for years. Some are easy to measure. Others are harder to pin down but just as real. Together they point to a hard road ahead for
Michael Fosterx.comWe are facing a ministerial crisis, meaning we are at the beginning of a massive shortage of qualified pastors... I've been noticing the signs of it for years. Some are easy to measure. Others are harder to pin down but just as real. Together they point to a hard road ahead for
Our ministry disease is not that the evangelical church is too deep, but that it is far too shallow. The symptoms of people and students leaving the church, or the lack of maturing disciples, or decreased attendance are symptoms that should tell us not that we are too deep but that we are too trivial.
J.T. English • Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
SEÑALES DE UN PASTOR QUE ESTÁ PERDIENDO SU CAMINO
Paul David Tripp • El llamamiento peligroso: Enfrentando los singulares desafíos del Ministerio Pastoral (Spanish Edition)
Denying “marriage equality” will only guarantee that any vestiges of public influence the Church has left will die a humiliating and very public death.
Sean McDowell • Same-Sex Marriage (Thoughtful Response): A Thoughtful Approach to God's Design for Marriage
Small churches—which make up the vast majority of congregations in communities across the US—have a shrinking number of people and resources to work with.
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
The established institutional church cannot now thrive on the good leadership it currently has.