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Pastor Craig Groeschel posted an excellent question for pastors and church staff on swerve.lifechurch.tv today you can read his post here ... Should I Stay Or Should I Go? I wanted to respond to his post by sharing two articles in the pastors area of LifeWay.com on this subject. These have been some of the most popular articles on lifeway.com in the past couple of years. The first article is 10 Factors to Consider Before Leaving Your Church by Conflict Management specialist Norris Smith . In this article, Norris says you should consider the following factors: Calling Circumstances Competencies Depletion Conflict Conduct Tenure Doctrine Environment Livelihood View the full article here 10 Factors to Consider Before Leaving Your Church The second article is How to Know When It's Time to Go by Calvin Wittman (Sr. Pastor of Applewood Baptist in Colorado). In this article, Calvin says we should look for "a compelling sense of call, an overwhelming certainty that God is call...

I preached this sermon on Sunday, January 11, 2009. The background passage is Colossians 3:5-17. Thanks to Jodi Brown and Juliet Winchester for their work on the "What Not to Wear" skit. What Not to Wear from Craig Webb on Vimeo . We are trying the Vimeo Plus service to load our sermon videos. View other Gladeville Baptist Church sermons at http://vimeo.com/gladechurch

Howard Dayton, Crown Financial, offers excellent overview of important biblical principles of financial management . He says, "If you're a Christian and you haven't been following God's biblical financial principles, isn't it time that you did ? After all, "Who you gonna believe," bankrupted businesses and folded financial institutions -- or God?" In this article he deals with ... CHRISTIAN COMMITMENT CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT CHRISTIAN CONCERN Read the article by Howard Dayton here ...

For those of you who are familiar with Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts by Thom and Sam Rainer, I wanted you to know about the new manual, Tools for an Essential Church . It is co-authored by Dan Garland, Thom Rainer, and Sam Rainer. Tools for an Essential Church takes leadership through a detailed step-by-step process to implement a strategy for becoming an "Essential Church." An "Essential Church" is defined as a place members see as an essential part of their lives. The manual is designed to help church leaders and staff develop strategies and processes to lead their churches to be more effective in carrying out their God-given mission. Content provides research and the basic premise of the Rainers’ book Essential Church? Reclaiming a Generation of Dropouts and takes leaders through all four phases of the Essential Church model: Simplify, Deepen, Expect, and Multiply . Simplify by implementing the principles of Simple Church Deepen thro...

I've been playing with a website called Issuu.com which allows anyone to publish PDF files so persons may view them online. And it's free. You may have to disable your popup blocker. Check it out ... Get your own - Open publication You may also see how I embedded it online on our church website ...

While almost two-thirds of Southern Baptist pastors have preached on stewardship in the past year, a new study shows that few of those pastors believe members of their congregation have a significant amount of debt – revealing a serious disconnect with the realities of American family life. The survey of 3,500 Southern Baptist senior pastors was conducted by LifeWay Research on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention between November 2007 and February 2008. The study revealed that 65 percent of pastors had preached on financial stewardship during the previous year but only 25 percent said their church members have "a significant amount of personal debt." That stands in stark contrast to national statistics about the debt load American families are carrying, said Scott McConnell, associate director of LifeWay Research. Highlights from the findings: Pastors disconnected from reality of congregational debt load Church members often look to pastors...