All The News|Healthy Church Solutions
HEALTHY CHURCH: Seasons of Ministry (Part 2)
298
There are stages we all go through and sometimes endure. These stages enable us to navigate different seasons of the ministry, such as a season of health and growth or sometimes a season of discouragement. Stages are linear, one follows the other, while seasons are cyclical and follow certain patterns. The three stages we have already written about are vision, prayerful planning and then challenges and trials. Trials and challenges can come in all shapes and sizes, such as spiritual ...
A Pastor's Greatest Regret After a Lifetime of Ministry
By Joe McKeever
I invite you to read this opening to my journal dated October 1980. I was 40 years old and Margaret was 38. We were in our 19th year of marriage, and pastoring the First Baptist Church of Columbus, Miss. Our children were 17, 14 and 11. The first entry in the book is dated Oct. 9. However, the paragraph above that reads:
“The month of October got off to a poor...