Tag Archives: Ministry Mind Shifts
Are Pastors Managers?
I’ve done some recent posts regarding a book I’ve recently read called The Trellis and The Vine.
It is a book filled with challenging mind shifts for people in vocational ministry, but also helpful for church members to have a vision for healthy pastors and churches.
One of these mind-shifts is all about helping people make progress as opposed Read More.
Church Growth or Gospel Growth?
The Trellis and The Vine is a book that has had a big impact on how I view “full time, vocational ministry”.
I’ve recently posted my thoughts on some of the mind shifts that have taken place in my own thinking.
The book often uses Read More.
Train New Workers, Don’t Fill Gaps
One of the immediate pressures upon ministers is to fill gaps left by leaders who leave our programs.
But if we just focus on gap filing we’ll never move out of maintenance mode: we’re just keeping existing ministries afloat instead of branching out into new ones.
We should start with the people that God has given us, not our programs.
(The Trellis and The Vine – Chapter 2, Ministry mind-shifts)
I read this book last year and Read More.