Trying the Spirits
Discernment Ministries receives many requests from believers seeking to understand truth from error in these perilous times. Exercising discernment is something that each believer is required to do according to Scripture. But exercising discernment can be quite troublesome in our era of mixed and confusing messages. The other day we ran across an 1844 vintage […]
Spot the Wolf: Part 4
Another post in the continuing series by Pastor Anton Bosch. Today’s post is particularly relevant to the new and deadly form of legalism that is emerging in the church today — a formulaic legalism which utilizes the business methods of setting standards for “success,” assessing and measuring performance, and demanding conformity to new extra-biblical “what […]
A Pause for Edification
True Discipleship, or the Liberty of Truth “Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed on him, “If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:31-32″ “…Religion is not an airy, imaginary, enthusiastic something, which stands independent […]
Spot the Wolf: Part 3
Part 3 in Pastor Anton Bosch’s series about how to spot wolves in sheep’s clothing. [Pastor Bosch has just finished authoring a book which will be of great assistance to those precious saints who have been “abandoned” by the Peter Drucker methods of church transformation. As soon as this book becomes available, Discernment Ministries will […]
Discontinuous Change & Perpetual Revival
Mental Models of the Church. In the old paradigm, change occurred incrementally. The church shared the values held by the predominant culture.…“In the mission field paradigm, change is rapid and discontinuous. the gap between the value held by the church and those held by the community is clear. [Excerpted from Leading Congregational Change by James […]
Creative Destruction
Change is a constant in the knowledge society. Knowledge is very perishable. The knowledge worker must act as an entrepreneur and exercise personal management. Knowledge workers must become accustomed to the process of “creative destruction.” They must become change leaders, active in the pursuit of change, rather than becoming victims of change. This compels the […]
Dumping Mr. Edsel
[Drucker]: …Thirty-odd years ago I began to counsel that you should build organized abandonment into your system. It follows the old line that it makes more sense for you to make obsolete your own products than to wait for the competitor to do it. But this is very hard for organizations to do. The internal […]
Global Health Leadership & Management
“•Change agents. To survive and succeed, every organisation will have to turn itself into a change agent. The most effective way to manage change successfully is to create it. But experience has shown that grafting innovation on to a traditional enterprise does not work. The enterprise has to become a change agent. This requires the […]
Spot the Wolf: Part 2
Today’s post is part 2 of Pastor Anton Bosch’s series of this title which we began last week 9/19/06. In our current series, we are looking at the warning signs that a spiritual leader could be a wolf and not a shepherd. Last time we mentioned that wolves are savage, that they say and do […]
Getting in S.H.A.P.E. for C.H.U.R.C.H.
With more than 2 billion members, churches have the world’s largest volunteer labor force. “What if half of those volunteers could be mobilized?” Rick Warren said….Church members can be trained to distribute and support HIV/AIDS medications, assist with essential nutrition, give medication education, and more.[Press release, “Rick and Kay Warren to Host AIDS Summit Featuring […]