Most Monday mornings I feel like resigning. Did I explain God’s Word well enough? Was my sermon understandable? Was I faithful to the biblical text? Should I have used more illustrations? Would another minister do a better job? Is it all worth it? Monday morning blues can be quite typical for those in the ministry… Continue reading The calling and confidence of church
Tag: Church Growth
What I learnt at the Generate Conference
The big question the REACH SA Generate Conference sought to answer was, “How should the church (and how we do church) respond to a changing culture?” The answer was that we must “make sure we know why we exist and remain faithful to that; and feel free to change the rest.” We exist to… Continue reading What I learnt at the Generate Conference
Six characteristics of a healthy church
I’m sure you know of the couple who woke up one Sunday morning and the wife said to her husband, “Get up or you will be late for church!” Her husband replied, “I really don’t feel like going to church and I don’t like the church people that much anyway. Give me 3 reasons why I… Continue reading Six characteristics of a healthy church
Brothers, we are not the only ministers
We live in an age of professionalism and specialisation. If our air-con breaks we phone the air-con specialist. If our child is sick, we don’t go to the GP but the paediatrician – who sends us to another specialist. If the bulb goes in our car’s headlamp, cars today are so sophisticated, we often have to… Continue reading Brothers, we are not the only ministers
How do you know if your church is successful?
We might be tempted to view churches with big attendance figures or large membership registers as successful. After all, they must be doing something right? Very often it’s the mega-church pastors that get asked to speak at conferences on church-growth and whose services are recorded for TBN. Mega-churrch pastors often write books that share their… Continue reading How do you know if your church is successful?