elders
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How much should you pay church staff? #1
Last year, our Association Committee (of Elders) discussed a concern that we may not be paying our staff sufficiently. In the past we effectively operated like a small business – paying our staff what we could manage, which wasn’t much, but… Continue reading
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Reblog: Whenever someone joins a church, re-appoint the ‘elders’
Paul’s instruction to Timothy; “appoint elders in every town”… do we do that any more – or was it just an early church thing? Think about those early churches; Paul went and preached in a town, the gospel spread and… Continue reading
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Why staff don’t take gifts
This is just one of the principles we made clear from the start with our staff. Staff don’t take gifts from the congregation. There’s OK gifts like “let me buy you a coffee” or “It’s your birthday”… they are common gifts… Continue reading
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Dual Church Membership #3.5 – Not talking about Groups within Groups
Churches have various groups within them, and you could call each of these groups a little church. But that’s not what we’re talking about. That’s not dual church membership. If you are part of a Growth Group, that Growth Group… Continue reading
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Dual church membership #2 – Why nothing
So why isn’t there anything in the bible about dual church membership? Well most of the churches were made up of the ONLY Christians in that area. There was THE church in Ephesus, THE church in Corinth, etc. They didn’t… Continue reading
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