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Bud Brown is the president of Transition Ministries Group. He has served churches in a variety of settings, from small rural congregations to mid-sized urban churches to one of the fastest growing megachurches in the U.S. Bud is a graduate of Dallas Seminary (Th. M., 1986) and Western Seminary (D. Min., 1995). He and his wife, Lea, live in Tucson, Arizona where Bud spends most of his days lounging by the pool in their back yard.
Will settled pastors of the future need to have the personal qualities of a church planter, the unique abilities of a turnaround expert and the specialized skills of an intentional interim pastor?
If the trends currently changing the face of American culture continue – and they seem to be accelerating – the settled pastor of …
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When was the last time you visited a place that billed itself as “the unfriendliest church in town?”
Me either. I don’t think I’ve ever been to one. But they’re out there in spirit if not in name. Tim Dolan reports that one of his lay ministry students found one.
As an assignment, I encouraged my students to put on their …
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Eventually every preacher gets stuck where Moses spent some time. In the desert, going nowhere, staring blankly at sheep.
Fortunately it doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. I recall Haddon Robinson warning a gaggle of green wannabes that sermon prep can become dull and mundane. “Like hammering doghouses together on an …
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Sooner or later the preacher runs into a wall.
He’s stuck. He doesn’t have a good answer.
When someone on staff asks, “what are you doing for your next sermon series?” they are met with a blank stare.
This happens to preachers of all stripes. Verse-by-verse expositors run into this wall when it’s time to figure out the …
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Calling an intentional interim pastor should be the first thing a church does when the pastor resigns, especially if the church meets any of these criteria:
The pastor is leaving after a lengthy tenure (experts differ over”lengthy tenure”, with figures from 7 to 15 years).
The church churns its pastors (a new one is called …
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