Leadership

Pastoral pay is important. While it isn’t always a make-or-break factor in a healthy relationship between a pastor and his church’s governing boards, it is nevertheless an important one.

Our inherent personality traits, emotional makeup, and “nature”are so strong, that as the parable states – even when it hurts us, we still can’t help it.

The church is not designed to be a shield protecting the Christian bubble of safety. Rather, the church is a vehicle engineered by God to send people into the darkest corners of the neighborhood.

Best practices for training up the next generation of church leaders

Whenever God’s people do the hard thing in the Lord’s way–when we love the unlovely, when we forgive our attackers, when we do good things to our enemy, when we soldier on in the face of adversity, when we maintain our joy in the midst of disaster and retaliate with love–twelve things begin to happen from that moment.

It would be many years before I began to realize how much I needed others. My failure to recognize the beauty of believers serving together cost me much in those early years.

Let God lead you through Scripture. Find passages that relate to your daily struggles. Many Bibles today have additional tools to help you. A simple study note or devotion can give you more confidence in your decision-making.

Leadership has to start with leading yourself well. You may be skilled, charismatic, or gifted, and those things may serve you well and advance your influence. Nevertheless, those abilities will only get you so far if you have not cultivated integrity.