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I thought I would do something to keep me blogging on ministry leadership. So I have "questions that haunt a pastor."** These are things that would keep a pastor up at night, or at least continually searching. The way this will work is, at the beginning of each week I'll post a question, and then you can post your thoughts about it. At the end of the week, I'll post my reflection/answer about it. To give things a chance to catch on, I'll ask the question this week, but I would love people to submit questions here.
This week's question is "Am I Making A Difference?" I ask myself that at least weekly. Do you ask yourself that? How do you measure your effectiveness as a leader, pastor, teacher, minister? I don't want to say too much now because I'll save it for the reflection/answer later. **(I'm stealing the title from my friend and theologian, Tony Jones. His series "Questions that Haunt Christianity" focuses on issues that deal with Christian Theology and Spirituality. People submit questions that bug them about Christianity, and then Tony and his readers answer. It's been pretty good discussion over at Theoblogy, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tonyjones/.)
David Lucas
7/3/2013 02:06:48 pm
Attendance has been way down this summer so I have been asking myself the same question. To make myself feel better I wrote down the names of the 12 children that were confirmed, the one adult baptism, the teen ager that was baptized and the three families that have joined the church so far this year. However, it still did not make me feel any better since attendance is down some much. Are we. am I making disciples that come to church to worship God and follow Jesus Christ or have we just added more club members to the club house? Yes, some people are out of town but many are skipping church during the summer because they have to rest from their active summer weekend. Comments are closed.
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