If in your congregation you are always fussing among yourselves, then why would the world want to be part of you?
Using a tablet for sermon notes offers several benefits. Give yourself a few weeks of practice, and you’ll be preaching from a tablet like a pro.
We are all challenged with a great many ministry opportunities, meetings, readings, and the every now and again crisis or two. This can easily lead to a place where no long term planning takes place, we are just too busy trying to care of the immediate.
The United Methodist Church employs an itinerant system for its clergy, moving them every few years to a new congregation. John Murdock posits that the UM appointment system is one of the cuts slowly bleeding to death a once vigorous spiritual and cultural bulwark.
When businesses obey the law and act in reasonably good faith with employees and consumers, they tend to have a variety of very positive effects on the wider community. In short, rather than being value-extracting, most businesses are value-giving.
