L.O.S.T – Part 4: Teach

It seems like I’ve gotten “lost” over the past couple of months when it comes to writing.  There are a number of reasons for that which I hope to write about soon.  However, I do want to finish up this 4-part series with this final segment called, “Teach”.
As I looked at in the previous three [...]

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L.O.S.T. – Part 3: Surrender

Okay, it would seem since it has been quite some time since I began this series that I must have gotten lost somewhere in the writing process. 
Maybe part of the delay is that part three is the hardest part for me to actually do.  I can handle the listening and the observing because I’m still involved [...]

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L.O.S.T. – Part 2: Observe

In my previous post, I wrote about the need to listen.  In part two, I want us to consider our need to observe.  Just as we often have difficulty listening, we often fail to observe for a variety of reasons.
We use the word observe in a couple of different ways.  We may talk about observing [...]

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L.O.S.T. – Part 1: Listen

I found a Facebook flair button some time back that I really enjoy.  It simply says, “Not all who wander are lost!”  I, like many people, have great difficulty in admitting that I would ever be lost.  “It’s a scenic route,” I might say.  “I’m just exploring,” is another phrase that often comes in handy [...]

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What Is It Worth?

What Is “It” Worth?
We have many ways of determining the worth, or value, or something.  We may look at how much something costs, how much someone would give us for it, or even how much it means to us.  Physical items often seem fairly easy to determine their worth, even when that value varies somewhat depending [...]

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Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out (part 3)

Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out?
Part 3 - Sent Out  
In Part One of this series of articles, I introduced the concept of three major approaches to occupational ministry change that can be seen in Biblical example and in churches today.  In that first post, I wrote about the change method of being Thrown Out.  This is a [...]

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Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out? (part 2)

Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out?
Part 2 - Left Out  
In Part One of this series of articles, I introduced the concept of three major approaches to occupational ministry change that can be seen in Biblical example and in churches today.  In part one, I wrote about the abrupt transition of being thrown out.  This is a harsh [...]

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Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out? (part 1)

Thrown Out, Left Out, or Sent Out?
Part 1 – Thrown Out  
These thoughts have been prompted by my recent conversations with a number of people experiencing transitions in, and out, of occupational ministry as well as reflections of my journey in ministry.
There seems to be three major approaches to occupational ministry change in churches today — thrown out, [...]

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