Comments on: Six Practices For Effective Staff Ministry http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/342 Christian Education at its best! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:54:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Israel Galindo http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/342#comment-96 Israel Galindo Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:29:42 +0000 http://grace-ed.org/blog/archives/342#comment-96 Good piece, Marty, thanks. I was trying to think if there was an element I'd add to the practices column, but I can think of only one: mutual respect. But I think that's a by-product that's derivative of other things---perhaps the very things you've identified, including, as you note, the cultivation of friendship through "building relationships." I think it's worth pointing out that for all of these good things to happen the key leader in the system (the pastor or senior pastor) needs to set the tone and the value. Without his or her invesment in helping to find the ways to make this happen it likely never will. Good piece, Marty, thanks. I was trying to think if there was an element I’d add to the practices column, but I can think of only one: mutual respect. But I think that’s a by-product that’s derivative of other things—perhaps the very things you’ve identified, including, as you note, the cultivation of friendship through “building relationships.”

I think it’s worth pointing out that for all of these good things to happen the key leader in the system (the pastor or senior pastor) needs to set the tone and the value. Without his or her invesment in helping to find the ways to make this happen it likely never will.

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