Bobby Braswell
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Posts by Bobby Braswell:
Pastors are people, too … kind of
Pastor’s gathering. SCOTT BARKLEY/Index When I think about pastoring a church the question the Apostle Paul asked comes to mind, “Who is sufficient for these things?” (2 Corinthians 3:5). A lot of my friends are pastors, and most of my work is around pastors and churches. There are things that I know now that I […]
The fragile promise of the smaller member church
… about 19.3 percent of the U.S. population live[s] in rural areas.
The day the Church stood still: Reflections on a pandemic and church culture
It feels like the pandemic fast forwarded whatever trajectory people were on.
Government-recommended social distancing or just the usual kind?
… I cannot ever remember this level of response to a health crisis before.
The dangerous disconnect between pastor search committees and congregants
I can’t prove some of what I am about to write. But I have heard this story told often enough that I think it constitutes a trend. It goes like this: a pastor search committee begins looking for a candidate. They are doing their best to understand God’s leadership. They accumulate resumes, they follow a […]
A different spin on the Priority Quadrant
Effectiveness in leadership always begins with leading ourselves.
Change the culture, change the church
Jim Powell, in his book “Dirt Matters” describes church culture as “a complex blend of norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions and practices that define the congregation.” All churches have a predictable way of behaving that is often informed by a combination of factors.Sometimes a church’s culture is characterized by some institutionalized reaction to a particularly traumatic […]
Thoughts on the ministry of interim pastors
“In a wild-west, anything goes, high turnover context such as exists in the SBC, interim pastors are vitally important to local church ministry.”
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