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Check Facebook and Twitter in Selecting Your Next Preacher (Church)
ByJerrie Barber September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

In 1976, when I started compiling a list of topics to discuss with elders in evaluating a move, I wanted to get all the right answers. I thought if we agreed on everything, we’d work well together. Read: Questions to Discuss with Elders When Considering Working with a Congregation I found two problems with this…

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Growth | Individual Responsibility | Leadership | Tools and Skills

Book of the Quarter — Your Future Self Will Thank You
ByJerrie Barber March 28, 2022May 30, 2022

Your Future Self Will Thank You: Secrets to Self-Control from the Bible and Brain Science (A Guide for Sinners, Quitters, and Procrastinators), by Drew Dyck, © 2019 by Drew Dyck, Moody Publishers, Chicago On the fifth Tuesday of each quarter of the year, I like to share a book I’ve read recently. I highlight “mustard…

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Communication | Conflict | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Leadership Selection | Shepherd-Shepherd Relationships | Tools and Skills

Meetings Before Meetings and Newton’s Third Law
ByJerrie Barber January 3, 2022December 17, 2023

Have you seen this? An eldership had been middle-of-the-road or conservative for many years. Then there’s a complete switch. They move to the other side of the continuum. How could that be? Here’s something I observed in a church less than 1,000 miles from where I’m writing this post, and it happened less than 100…

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What Do You Expect of Members of the Congregation?
ByJerrie Barber October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

About two years ago, I visited with a pastor who started a new church. It was in a section of town where people told me you couldn’t grow a church. The neighborhood was changing. This man and his family had started the church in his living room with very few people about three or four…

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Goals | Gratitude | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Influence

Before Setting Goals, Managing Time: Reflect on Unifying Principles
ByJerrie Barber August 2, 2021August 17, 2021

In January 1985, I listened to lectures on tape of The Insight System for Planning Your Time and Your Life, by Charles R. Hobbs. He had many good principles of time management. I listened to the lectures and did the homework. This has influenced my way of managing time. He said a person should manage their…

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Anger | Communication | Conflict | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Influence | Leadership | Listening | Tools and Skills | Transition

Book of the Quarter: UPROAR: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times
ByJerrie Barber March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

UPROAR: Calm Leadership in Anxious Times, by Peter L. Steinke, Rowman & Littlefied, Lanham; Copyright © 2019 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc; ISBN 9781538116531 Peter Steinke died July 13, 2020. This was his last book. He had been studying, writing, and teaching about family systems for twenty-five years. I went to a…

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Anger | Communication | Conflict | Deacons | Delegation | Elder-Preacher Relationships | Giving | Goals | Gossip | Gratitude | Grief | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Influence | Leadership | Leadership Selection | Listening | Overseeing | Sheep | Shepherd-Shepherd Relationships | Shepherding

New Shepherds Orientation Workshop #20 — Decatur, Alabama
ByJerrie Barber February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Front Row, Left to Right: Marilyn Whitson, Melissa Cooper, Ginger Spurlin, Jerrie Barber, Jeanne Simpson, Linda Hammond, Elizabeth Guinn, Elizabeth Michael, Rachel Harrub, Becky EllisBack Row, Left to Right: John Cooper, Jere Spurlin, Gail Barber, Alan Watkins, Tim Simpson, Keith Hammond, Robert Guinn, Cody Michael, Will Harrub, Jeff Ellis The New Shepherds Orientation Workshop was…

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Communication | Conflict | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Leadership | Tools and Skills

Book of the Quarter: The Ideal Team Player
ByJerrie Barber December 28, 2020December 28, 2020

The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues #ad, by Patrick Lencioni, Copyright © 2016, Published by Josey-Bass, Hoboken, New Jersey ISBN: 9781119209591 I found a good model for interviewing and selecting someone and how that person will work with others. I don’t endorse all the language in the book….

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Delegation | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Influence | Leadership | Tools and Skills

Who’s Gonna Fill Their (Our) Shoes?
ByJerrie Barber August 31, 2020August 31, 2020

Who’s gonna fill their shoes?Who’s gonna stand that tall?Who’s gonna play the OpryAnd the Wabash Cannonball?Who’s gonna give their heart and soulTo get to me and you?Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes? Max D. Barnes and Troy Seals wrote the song, “Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes,” released by George Jones in 1985. They…

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Communication | Conflict | Elder-Preacher Relationships | Goals | Gossip | Growth | Individual Responsibility | Leadership | Termination | Tools and Skills | Transition

Between Preachers: You Can Grow Through Interim Ministry — PUBLISHED!
ByJerrie Barber January 28, 2020January 28, 2020

When I started working with churches between preachers nearly thirteen years ago, several people, said, “You should write a book on interim ministry.” I started the blog Between Preachers in January 2016 which became the book released last week. Between Preachers is now available in both paperback and Kindle on Amazon. Order your copy: [su_button…

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