Pastors Can Achieve a Good Work-Life Balance: 5 Ways
Improving one's own spiritual well-being is a deeply personal journey that supports pastors work-life balance.
Leadership
Embracing an Aging Congregation Renewal
The people who made up the church had to believe again that God could use them, us, to reach out to the community. The fact of the matter is hard choices had to be made, and it started with reclaiming the property for the Lord to enable aging congregation renewal.
Put Out the Welcome Mat for Community Partnerships
There are endless opportunities to turn unused space into community space through welcome community partnerships, but it will take a flexible and agile leadership eye to embrace change.
Repurposing Your Church Space for Community
The one thing a faltering church typically has is space: empty classrooms, parking lots, education buildings, or offices. Learn how your local church can leverage that church space for community needs.
Change Your Church’s Scorecard Effectiveness
The way the world measures church scorecard effectiveness must not become the way the church does. The scorecard that the church has used for decades has become broken.
God Is Not Limited by Our Lack of Provision
When churches lack resources, it's easy to feel discouraged, but God's provision in lack can bring revitalization.
Lessons From Two Sisters On Responsiveness
Refrain from allowing the distractions of ministry to overwhelm your sense of servanthood by sometimes being served by others, learning lessons from sisters responsiveness.
Surrendered Leadership
Sometimes big change masquerades as small change. We go to the meetings as we are directed by our electronic calendars, but we increasingly see these commitments and our to-do lists as Gods call on our time as we develop these priorities in prayer, embracing surrendered leadership.
Plug Into God’s Power
A church that prays is a church that changes its focus from self to the Savior and redeems the time for God's will in the church's life.
Growing Relationships Rather Than Numbers
When a church focuses on the person as a whole and not the transactional relationship often, they see Christ in the person and not the person inside the local church, which begins to tare the veil of developing relationships to become pew warmers.