by Bill Wilson | Aug 6, 2015 | Opinion
One of the most excruciating congregational projects I’ve ever experienced was a strategy planning process at a church where I served on staff early in my ministry. Over the course of 18 months, I watched as a star-studded leadership group slogged through an...
by Bill Wilson | Jul 1, 2015 | Opinion
I attended recently a national gathering of Baptists that was a stark reminder of the desperate need for congregational and clergy health. It wasn’t so much that this group is any more or less healthy than other shades of Baptists or other denominations. What...
by Bill Wilson | Jun 5, 2015 | Opinion
If asked to identify a favorite New Testament character, most of us go with the predictable and obvious: Barnabas, Mary, Nathaniel, Peter, Lydia, Timothy or Phoebe. Let me remind you of an obscure character who can remind us of an important truth about church health....
by Bill Wilson | May 27, 2015 | Opinion
Richard Blackburn, a Lombard Peace Center trainer, was a featured speaker at a recent training event for congregational conflict interventionists. “When I look into the history of churches I go into for a conflict intervention, I almost always find they had a...
by Bill Wilson | May 8, 2015 | Opinion
I have made the case over the years that ministers and churches must cultivate a spirit of and appreciation for entrepreneurship if they are to thrive in the 21st century. Living in a post-church and post-Christian culture requires us to become innovative and creative...
