In my last blog I wrote about the fact that the church is people and not the organisation or the history/tradition or the administration systems and process. Building the church therefore by definition requires the […]
My Greatest Frustration
Someone once said, ‘Frustration and Vision are exactly the same thing.’ They’re right, but it doesn’t feel like it when you’re frustrated! being a church leader is a frustrating thing, partly because at times you […]
What makes a great volunteer
Yesterday ate CLC we had our Involved! Sunday. This is a day when we celebrate volunteers, have a little expo on positions that are available for volunteers and we teach on the culture of serving. […]
Atmosphere
Right now we are looking at Christian Life Church into the theme Devoted. We are taking the first four chapters from Acts and seeing how the first Christians were Responding to the outpouring of the […]
Upgrade
I love september it’s like the start of a new year in the life of the church after summer. I’ve been thinking recently about how do we upgrade what we are doing, how can we […]
Culture – What is Culture?
Every organisation has it, many have a culture they don’t want, many know the culture they want but don’t know how to get it. But what is it?. Culture is what makes us who we […]
Gathering
So several church surveys are telling us that a committed church member can now be identified as someone who attends at least once per month. Apparently, as a Pastor, that’s meant to make me feel […]
It’s all about the quality of the team
I really am suspicious of the phrase this is the only thing you need to know so I want to talk about the only thing you need to know. This blog is inspired by a […]
Capacity
It’s all about capacity! Today I can do more than I could 20 years ago. It is true that in some areas my capacity may be less than it was 20 years ago. Im not […]
Is nothing better than bad?
The problem with vision is, vision can become the mother of the bad. Vision leads us to do something as does passion, but often if our response to vision & passion isn’t well thought through […]
