Our congregation is continuing the congregational transformation process using the materials from the Center for Parish Development. We’re in the “discerning our vision” section, trying as best we can to listen to the Spirit as we muddle through the process and our ongoing ministries. Working with a visioning team we’ve written a draft version of [...]
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Guiding vision and worship series
Posted in change, church, worship on 6 November 2007 | Leave a Comment »
discernment conversations
Posted in change, church, spiritual practices, spirituality on 20 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Our elders met last night for dinner and a pint. As part of our conversations I offered up the question from Diana Butler Bass’ chapter on discernment, “Where do you see God in your ministry?”
I probably shouldn’t have sprung the question on them out of the blue.
I elaborated a bit. [...]
discernment…what’s that all about?
Posted in change, church, prayer, spiritual practices on 11 December 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Our clergy reading group will be discussing chapter 6 Listening for Truth from Diana Butler Bass’s book Christianity for the Rest of Us. It’s a timely conversation for me because of our congregation’s participation in a transformation process directed by the Center for Parish Development.
In this chapter Bass describes churches involved in the [...]
are we just part of one big flea circus?
Posted in change, church on 9 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This Sunday we’re talking about ministry burnout within the life of the church. We ask folks to serve in all sorts of ways–worship teams, choir, finance, education, elders, diaconate, property, outreach; the list of committees, subcommittees, special ministry teams can go on and on. One of the highly involved individuals in our congregation [...]
Lost in the city
Posted in change, church on 6 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As our congregation has begun Sunday conversations about transformation, I’ve been trying to offer images of what that change experience is like. We’re in the middle of looking at ourselves and the community around us. We’re doing a membership survey to get a better picture of the congregation. We’re discussing changes in [...]
where to begin?
Posted in change on 5 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here in the Northwest I serve a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation that recently celebrated its centennial year. The church is made up of good, generous people who care deeply about one another.
And like many older, established mainline congregations we are struggling.
We are not standing still. We’ve taken first steps. [...]
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