Case Study...
On October 12, 2016 two new staff positions were filled at Metro Presbyterian (PCUSA) Church (MPC) in Atlanta, Ga. With these two...
Deuteronomy 6:4-15...
Deuteronomy is a retelling of the story of the people who have escaped slavery in Egypt and have followed God and Moses through the...
Ephesians 4:4-16...
There is one body, one spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and there is one God. Ephesians 4:4-16 follows a creedal...
The Nicene Creed...
The fourth century was a time of great change for the Christian Church. Most of the Church existed inside of territories belonging to...
Assets Based Community Development...
You do not have to look far in contemporary “church-world” to encounter anxiety about the decline in the Western Church. Social-media,...
Anxiety...
2013’S fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM5) discusses anxiety saying Anxiety more often...
Paul Tillich – Anxiety and Courage...
Paul Tillich, in his book The Courage to Be, writes about three different types of anxiety centered around the threat of nonbeing. These...
James Loader- The Transformative Moment...
Anxiety arises as the self becomes aware of the void.[1] If God created order, beauty, and life out of nothing, the void seeks to...
Ministry Application...
Leading Congregational Studies scholar Peter L. Steinke says that there are eleven main ways that anxiety in a congregation, or any...
Vision...
A vision is a clear plan for the future as it could or should be. It is an ideal future for the church and the community around it. It...
Mission...
Be careful not to confuse vision with mission. Whereas vision deals with a desired future, mission is the plan of how to get there. In...
Core Values...
If vision is where we are going and mission is how we are going to get there, our core values are who we are. A community’s core values...
Plans & Objectives...
With a community’s vision, mission, and core values in place and clearly articulated, the leadership, along with the community, is ready...
Freedom...
If a community can be reoriented towards this new vision, mission, and core values, the energy that is had been directing into...