by Bill Owen | Apr 4, 2018 | change, Transitions
Over more than forty years as a pastor and now as an interim pastor and as a congregational and leadership coach, I have had a wide array of experiences in the local church. An emerging concern for me, and for many of my fellow pastors and congregations, has been the...
by Bill Owen | Jan 9, 2018 | change
Amy Butler, pastor of the Riverside Church in NYC, recently reminded congregational leaders: “Make it our priority to perpetually reframe the narrative from scarcity to abundance…. When congregations speak in narratives of decline and death, desperation and...
by Joel Snider | Nov 14, 2017 | Adapting, change
When we were small children, the future was simply tomorrow. While it seemed distant, it was only a good night’s sleep away. Later, the future turned into dreams: what will you be when you grow up? The future felt like it was eons away, but it beckoned us with...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 19, 2017 | Adapting, change
Jesus once said: “Every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matthew 13:52). A householder managed a large estate on behalf of its wealthy owners: they...
by Joel Snider | Jul 25, 2017 | change
Any homeowner can tell you concrete cracks. Metal also rusts. Wood warps. Caulk fails. Paint peals and sunlight fades everything. Sometimes we can get by with touching up our home’s age spots. But, if we own the house long enough, we eventually face a remodeling...
by Bill Owen | Mar 14, 2017 | change, declining congregation
I’ll never forget August 3, 1995. The family and I were in Destin, Florida with good friends. We vacationed here regularly during the child-rearing years. We did the same thing every summer. We had our place to stay, our spot on the beach, and our list of restaurants...
