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COMING OUT OF THE LIBERAL/CONSERVATIVE CLOSET
February 6, 2015 | Steve
HAVING FUN LOOSENING UP As presbyteries experience more ideological tension and the grief of having congregations choose to leave the…
CREATIVE CONTRIBUTION TO EVOLUTION DEBATE
February 4, 2015 | Steve
74 YEARS AGO TODAY I WAS BORN SOMEONE PRECEDED ME SOMEONE WILL FOLLOW ME I EVOLVED…
ONLY ONCE IN A CENTURY
February 4, 2015 | Steve
OK WHAT HAS HAPPENED ONLY ONCE IN THIS CENTURY AND WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN? TODAY I TURN 74 I WILL…
Then God Created a Committee
January 30, 2015 | Steve
I found this excerpt from a book, “We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This” by Jane L Justis. You can find…
DON’T GET PUSHED AROUND
January 28, 2015 | Steve
PRESBYTERIES SHOULD PUSH BACK I’ll say it again. Presbyteries should stop letting themselves be pushed around. They should PUSH back.…
Images of Healthy Church in Anxious Times
January 23, 2015 | Steve
Talk About Healthy Church Behavior Being anxious is not wrong. There are plenty of reasons why people might have their…
Unhealthy Symptoms in Anxious Church
January 21, 2015 | Steve
The next couple of blogs apply some of the insights of Brene’ Brown and her study of people’s response to…
HELP THE CHURCH BE HEALTHY
January 16, 2015 | Steve
BE A HEALTHY CHURCH This past October I led the annual conference for the Presbytery Pastoral Care Network. You can…
LOVING THE CHURCH IS MORE THAN JUST AN IDEA
January 14, 2015 | Steve
Getting Our Butts Out of the Chair Are you tired of hearing about another church who thinks they should split…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (8)
January 9, 2015 | Steve
WE ARE YOUR PEOPLE, LORD In addition to the gatherings of both the small groups of churches and the larger…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (7)
January 7, 2015 | Steve
Being proactive in healing the divisions among the churches.
IS GOD CRAZY OR WHAT?
January 2, 2015 | Steve
IS GOD CRAZY OR WHAT God called me to ministry. God called me to gather a group of narcissists and…
NEW YEAR’S EVE GIFT
December 31, 2014 | Steve
GOD’S CALL bY sTEVE MCCUTCHAN I’m not so sure That God called me I am a pastor The Spirit…
CONNECTING PASTORS OF THE ONE BODY
December 22, 2014 | Steve
BUILDING CONNECTIONS AMONG THE CLERGY All General Presbyters/Presbytery Executives know the challenge. First, we live in an age of institutional…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (6)
December 19, 2014 | Steve
PROACTIVE PRESBYTERIANS ACT If you have decided to be a proactive presbytery in addressing prophetically the threat of division within…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (5)
December 17, 2014 | Steve
NAMING THE TENSIONS Since we cannot exist without leaving an impression on the community around us, we need to be…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (4)
December 12, 2014 | Steve
INTRODUCTIONS Begin by introducing the leadership from presbytery. Explain that you will have all present to introduce themselves in a…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES AGAINST DIVISIONS (3)
December 10, 2014 | Steve
A PERSONAL INVITATION The invitations to these meetings need to be specific and personal. If possible, it should be either…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES (2)
December 5, 2014 | Steve
THREE BEGINNING STEPS I think there are three initial steps that you need to think about. STEP ONE Does the…
PROACTIVE PROPHYLACTIC FOR PRESBYTERIES (1)
December 3, 2014 | Steve
REFLECTING THE WORST IN SOCIETY OK, if you have been reading the lead up to this series of blogs, you…