Spiritual Formation
Leadership Formation in the Church
“As leaders, the most important thing we bring to the church is the person we are becoming, because that’s what everybody sees, that’s what gets reproduced, and that’s what people will trust. Therefore, we must order our lives in such a way that we as persons and as a leadership team are experiencing increasing contentment, contagious joy, and a deepening confidence in God.” —Dallas Willard
Continue ReadingEYELET
Multiple surveys and our own personal experience demonstrate the truth that Millennials and Generation Z (people in their thirties, twenties, and teens) are leaving the Church in droves and they are not coming back to the Church as it is currently structured.
Continue ReadingThe Process of Deciding, Discerning, and Doing
In light of this three-article series on discernment, it seems appropriate to finish with a final article on some practical application. This piece covers some decisions we need to make, some examples of discernment processes we can apply (including two book reviews), and then finally an encouragement towards actually doing, or putting what we have discerned into practice.
Continue ReadingDeveloping Practices of Communal Discernment in Relation to Institutional Decision-making
Practices of communal discernment that are intertwined with decision-making and strategic planning processes offer an opportunity to bridge the divide between what is deemed to be “sacred” and what is said to be “secular.”
Continue ReadingDiscernment—Paying Attention to God at Work in our Neighbourhoods
One of the greatest joys of my life has been to serve for the last ten years in the NAB, encouraging pastors and helping churches to wrestle with issues of theology, missiology, and ecclesiology in this current context we find ourselves in.
Continue ReadingPraying for our NAB Family
It is with heavy hearts that we share of the news of Ron Mayforth’s passing on December 28, 2019.
Continue ReadingAdvent Resources from the Women’s Connection Leadership Team
Advent is the season observed as a time of expectant waiting for the celebration of the birth of Jesus, the One who saves us from sin. In the midst of the parties, gifts, family, friends, traveling, and shopping, we need to slow down and meditate on why we worship our Lord. The following resources may help you focus on Emmanuel – God with us – during this season.
Continue ReadingGreat Times of Connecting
Times of Connecting
As we sat around tables, we shared with one another what God is doing in our lives and churches. One of the highlights of our time together is Table Talk…
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