A lesbian couple approaches you after the morning service, asking you to baptize their two children. You learn that each woman conceived one child by artificial insemination. You’re an interim pastor, new to this church. What will you do? Interim pastors have a vocational call that is becoming more difficult as society continues to drift
How do you quickly establish trust with a new congregation when you know there’s hard times ahead? You’re new to them, they’re a bit worried about what you’re going to do and they’re not sure if they can trust you or not. What do you do? Interim pastors must earn trust from the client church.
What can an interim pastor do to help the next settled pastor succeed? You can train the church to understand the difference between being busy and being productive. Too many churches think the pastor’s work week should level out around 60 hours per, but they give precious little thought to how that time is spent!
How do you cram 25 pounds of potatoes into a 10 pound sack? That’s what it feels like to be an interim pastor. We have a lot to accomplish and little time to do it. Our client churches want us to cram three to five years of change management, leadership, culture development and plan execution
I just fell in love with a new app! Next Issue gives me unlimited access to over 90 magazines – all on my iPad. For that price I don’t feel guilty about not reading the whole magazine. I mean, who doesn’t want to be a good steward of their hard spent funds? At the moment
So, how did you answer the question about church leadership development? Image Credit: Jonathan_W (@whatie) via Compfight A earlier post suggested that interim pastors leverage the power of AND to train church leadership how to make better decisions. All you need to do is teach them to cut “whether or not” from their vocabulary. Show
AND Image Credit: Julia Manzerova via Compfight Three letters. A simple conjunction. It coordinates two items of equal syntactic importance. Use it to replace another conjunction when framing an important decision. Instead of OR, use AND. Interim pastors often have to train lay leaders how to make good decisions. Teaching them to use this word
There is one good reason why interim pastors should journal regularly. When they do, they enjoy seven ministry advantages. The one reason you should maintain a professional journal is because every once in a while you’ll run into a problem where you’ll be your own best advisor! When that happens your advice to yourself will
How do you get everyone in the church headed in the same direction when the lay leaders aren’t up to the challenge? Interim pastors often find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, you need to help the congregation own the transition process. On the other hand, the lay leaders don’t
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