Training Pastors

Free Online Preaching Seminar

This looks interesting, but I can’t vouch for it. The producers tout this as a “FREE online preaching conference to help you prepare and deliver free sermons.” (link) The lineup includes some top names: Andy Stanley Steven Furtick Crawford Loritts Nancy Duarte Louie Giglio Pete Wilson Ed Stetzer Mark Driscoll Donald Miller Jon Acuff Mark

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The interim pastor’s guide to choosing a transition team

An interim pastor has it easier in one regard: the church hired you to accomplish one specific task. Your job, which you have chosen to accept, is to deal with the issues that hinder the church’s ministry. If you’re smart about this you’ll recruit a transition team to help you tackle big problems. The transition

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10 things you won’t learn in seminary [Updated]

Invariably seasoned and successful pastors who train for a second vocational career as an intentional interim pastor will say, “Why didn’t they teach me this in seminary?” or “Why didn’t someone tell me this thirty years ago?” It’s not their fault. Seminaries can’t teach you everything you need to know about ministry. In fact, they

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The Collaborative Way

The Collaborative Way offers a couple of free downloads that could prove useful in developing more collaborative leadership process in your church.   An intentional and designed way of working together that harnesses the collective intelligence, imagination and spirit of a company’s workforce. When put into practice, this unique methodology offers a critical strategic advantage,

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Will all pastors be church planters and turnaround specialists?

Will settled pastors of the future need to have the personal qualities of a church planter, the unique abilities of a turnaround expert and the specialized skills of an intentional interim pastor? If the trends currently changing the face of American culture continue – and they seem to be accelerating – the settled pastor of

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friendly-church

7 simple steps to 1st rate church hospitality

  When was the last time you visited a place that billed itself as “the unfriendliest church in town?” Me either. I don’t think I’ve ever been to one. But they’re out there in spirit if not in name. Tim Dolan reports that one of his lay ministry students found one. As an assignment, I

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Church Security: the interim pastor’s responsibility

[dc]L[/dc]akeview Heights Baptist Church knows that church security is a hot topic that’s getting hotter all the time. This little church in Tulsa, Oklahoma has been robbed 29 times in 2012, 25 times in 2011. Thieves have taken a TV, two VCRs, five microwaves, a wheelchair, heaters, pots and pans, and even toilet paper and

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Church vision statements: how the interim pastor sells ’em

Church vision statements are like diet and exercise. Everybody knows its good for you but relatively few muster up the discipline to stick with it for long. How many well-crafted vision statements end up gathering dust in a neglected file jacket? How many failed because they weren’t properly communicated and executed? It turns out that

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Interim pastors must prepare for the Missional church

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/55323627[/vimeo] If you are an intentional interim pastor it’s time to prepare yourself to minister in the Missional Church model. It’s just a matter of time before you’re approached for guidance and consultation. Are you ready for this? This 30 minute video presentation is prepared with you in mind. In it you’ll discover a concise comparison

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