Smart Pastor

Let me tell you one thing that they did not teach us in seminary…how to run a meeting. I have been in a number of horrible meetings over my years in ministry. Meetings where nothing is accomplished, time is wasted, and we wish we were doing something else. Meetings where we think [...]

From the Wall Street Journal Online…
On a quiet Sunday morning in June, as worshippers settled into the pews at Allen Baptist Church in southwestern Michigan, Pastor Jason Burrick grabbed his cellphone and dialed 911. When a dispatcher answered, the preacher said a former congregant was in the sanctuary. “And we need to, um, have her [...]

Why do some churches decline and others thrive?
Is it style? Leadership? Programming?  God’s will?  According to Pastor Erwin McManus, it is that something else. Style, leadership, and programming is not the issue, but the heart is.
Quoting from the story…
“My primary assessment would be because American Christians tend to be incredibly self-indulgent so [...]

It could well be, according to Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
The premise of the book is that people are of the fixed or growth mindset. The fixed mindset believes in having natural talent and abilities that achievement can be attributed to. The growth mindset believes that achievement [...]