by Ron Sisk | Mar 3, 2003 | Opinion
In evangelical life, the high value placed on ministry as a “calling” and the relatively low value placed on ministry as a “profession” traditionally meant that ministers were expected to know how to behave apart from any attempt to set...
by Ron Sisk | Dec 16, 2002 | Opinion
Most of us in the church want to assume that the preachers among us do so from Christian motives and by Christian methods. What we find instead is “it ain’t necessarily so!” Most of us in the church want to assume that the preachers among us do so...
by Ron Sisk | Nov 6, 2002 | Opinion
Just as the final word in real estate is “location, location, location,” so also there is a final word in beginning a ministry. That word is “relationships, relationships, relationships!” First, celebrate your beginning. For church members, the...
by Ron Sisk | Nov 5, 2002 | Opinion
Once, in the process of accepting a call to a very expensive part of the country, we were told that the church would help us with a down payment on a home. But by the time we arrived, the committee members remembered the conversation differently. How do you begin a...
by Ron Sisk | Sep 23, 2002 | Opinion
The way a minister leaves can profoundly affect a congregation more than ministers often realize. And we’re under obligation, as far as it depends on us as ministers of the Gospel, to leave well. But what does that mean? But that doesn’t constitute leaving...
