Work Ethic in Ministry
As church staff members, it’s important to have a mentor… someone you can look up to… someone that can give advice… someone who can coach you through the hard times and help you with tough decisions. Lindsay Olson provides these five simple tips for helping you find a great mentor… 1. Look beyond the obvious. If… read more
Everybody likes to have friends! We all want to think we have people in our lives that genuinely care about us and they have a significant part in our lives. However, to be honest… many just don’t know the laws of attraction! What is you can do that will make people gravitate to you? The… read more
Rick Howerton writes: Because all of us are flawed, even a well meaning senior pastor may be involved in something or make a request of a staff member that is out of bounds. Staff member, it’s okay to question the senior pastor in any of the following instances. 1. The senior pastor asks you to… read more
In a recent edition of USA Today, in a survey of 26,000+ adults… “If I could do it all over again I would choose…” 41% said the same career 59% said a new career Ministry is a little bit different when you factor in everyone’s different view of ‘calling’. But my question to you today… read more
It recently dawned on me that all my church experiences have come in threes: I pastored six churches, three rather small and three rather large, and in between served on the staff of a large church for three years. As you know, we preachers love our threes. Sermons seem to always have three points. In… read more
I’m nearing the 10-year mark of being a church employee. That practically makes me a veteran. Ten years, four churches and millions of cups of Starbucks later [I’m convinced that’s the drug of choice for church workers] I’ve had a first hand-look at how the church works [by work I mean how it functions day-to-day… read more