I don’t have a problem with leadership. I have a problem with “Christian” leadership. The reason is because the leadership I see exemplified in scripture is not the one I see practiced amongst Christians today. As the picture so eloquently depicts,  Christian Leadership puts the individual leader on top while everyone serves him/her. If you have...

I want to discuss something that is near and dear to my heart. That is the role and goal of traditional pastoral ministry. I believe our current model is the direct opposite of what the scripture teaches. I will use Ephesians 4:11-16 as a basis. It reads… 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the...

I wrote a previous post called “whose sheep are they”. I decided to stay with the name for this post.  This post was actually in the think tank; however a dear blogging buddy over at New Leaven posted this about small groups. This actually rekindle my thoughts and motivated this post. Lets be clear about something. Leaders, have no right to tell...

No, I am not asking are you in “church” this Sunday, I am asking are you doing what should be done when the church meets. You see I have come to the conclusion that for the most part, I won’t get much out of a Sunday service from most churches. I have also come to the conclusion that neither will you, and most of us, will sit in a pew Sunday after...

Here is a post from Aug 2008. I wrote this post after wrestling with leadership and so forth. This is where my paradigm for leadership really began to sink in and I became more and more convinced that the way leadership functions in Christianity today may not be the way it was intended...

Richards, Lawrence O. A Theology Of Church Leadership. The Zondervan Corporation, Grand Rapids, MI, 1980. Ppg 399. Throughout one’s reading collection, there are books that rattle our cage, others strengthen our positions one way or the other, others move you from one position to the other at rapid speeds, others awaken curiosity, while other cause such deep...