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  Topic: Your Faith or Your Living
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Day 23: The Rod   Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:17 am   Subject: Your Faith or Your Living
Creating and enforcing rules is pastoral ministry. Confronting and removing abusive members from a congregation is as much shepherding as nurturing young and needy ones.

This chapter encouraged me. ...
  Topic: I have always heard them called alligators
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Day 17: Recognizing the Wolves   Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:47 am   Subject: They're Everywhere
I've been at our church for 12 years. The first 10 were pretty brutal and bloody—going from a membership of 700 to our current (relatively happy and healthy) 300.

During that time, I was of ...
  Topic: Perpetually Conflicted
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Day 21: Dogs   Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:40 am   Subject: Perpetually Conflicted
"He considered himself among a third group he named the sheepdogs. 'I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.'”

This anecdote, quoting a Viet Nam vet was ringing through my head ...
  Topic: Going After It
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Day 18: Facing the Lions   Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:36 am   Subject: Going After It
"Can we report, like David, ‘I went after it’?”

By personality, family background and training (especially as a Ranger), I tend to “go after it.” However, I can ...
  Topic: Good Reminder
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Open Forum   Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:09 am   Subject: Good Reminder
From Day 13...

The staff represents these messages. A post-it note on the computer screen. A treat left in the lunch bag. A surprise party. A well-thought-out job review. A call on the anniversary ...
  Topic: A good staff devotion
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Open Forum   Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:25 am   Subject: Elders
I've had the same thought re: my Session (elders). Their job is to "shepherd" the flock. Given that most meetings are "business-oriented," it would be interesting to see how they ...
  Topic: Day 5: Spring Up, O Well
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Open Forum   Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:23 am   Subject: Day 5: Spring Up, O Well
"The question left for us is, 'Do we direct the attention of those we serve to the Source or do we sometimes, in exasperation, use the "tricks" of skills and strategies to accomplish he ...
  Topic: Holy Ground
pastordzaster

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PostForum: Day 1: The Wilderness   Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 11:04 am   Subject: Wilderness
Funny how we spend much of our time trying to avoid "the wilderness" and yet, biblically, it's where God does most of his work!
 
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