Things that can’t go on, eventually don’t…

By Parson Brown, on 1:56 pm%

As the Pastor of a smaller congregation (I can’t really say small anymore because our average attendance now places us around the 50th percentile), also as a pastor who had a successful run doing something else before, articles like this pop up on my screen. Truth be told, this is part of the reason I . . . → Read More: Things that can’t go on, eventually don’t…

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Numbers, members and disciples

By Parson Brown, on 4:55 pm%

William Willimon is a great preacher. And somewhere along the way he decided to give up a cushy job as the Dean of the Chapel at Duke and become the presiding bishop of North Alabama Conference in the UMC. That is roughly like giving up a job that has no accountability where people praise . . . → Read More: Numbers, members and disciples

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