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church, leadership
Four ways to help your congregation’s leadership
11.21.06 | Permalink | 4 Comments1. Thank them. The surest way to eliminate your congregation’s thankless tasks. 2. Trust them. Nine times out of ten—at least—they have your congregation’s best interests at heart. They are your sisters and brothers in faith. Give them the respect they deserve. Assume the best. 3. Follow them. Your congregational leadership doesn’t work for you: […]
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al-gore, falwell, gospel-of-thomas, hillary-clinton, jonah, leadership, lewis-black, opossum, pneumatology, pope, prayer, yom-kippur
Scribe Jamboree: 09/29/2006
Linky link goodness from the folks at The Daily Scribe. (The Scribe just changed its engine for a new model, so if you haven’t checked the Scribe out lately, check it out for all the new groovy features rolling out over the next while.) Al Gore as Jonah, Planet Earth as God—a cartoon! (JVoices) Lewis […]
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christianity, community-organizing, early-church, leadership, organizational-structure, paganism, pbs, roman-empire
Community organization and religious movements
01.13.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Community organization and religious movementsA nifty little PBS essay on the Early Church points out how crucial Christianity’s down-to-earth organizational structure was to its success in the Roman Empire. The author attributes its success to several things: The bewildering array of new gods and cults available to Romans could be radically simplified by converting to Christianity. Conversion, rather than […]
