{"id":388,"date":"2007-06-26T00:28:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T04:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/388"},"modified":"2007-06-26T00:42:45","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T04:42:45","slug":"like-a-three-legged-stool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/388","title":{"rendered":"Like a Three-Legged Stool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric H.F. Law, Episcopal priest and internationally known consultant on multiculturalism, in his book, <em>Inclusion: Making Room for Grace<\/em>, invites congregational leaders to think of their church ministries in three components. The three ministry components and descriptions are: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/componentsa.jpg' alt='componentsa.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Comparing congregational ministries to a three-legged stool, Sloan says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For a congregation to exercise its ministries effectively, it must achieve a balance of the components.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (p. 88)  He stresses the need that each component must support the other two. If one is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153shorter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d than the other two the church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s effectiveness is minimized\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlike a stool that has one leg that is shorter than the other two. After working with over twenty churches through a process of clarifying the components and providing dialogue for church members to assess the ministries of their church, Sloan says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I discovered that the most revealing, but usually the most difficult, part of the process is the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcministry to the church.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (p.89) <\/p>\n<p>How, in your congregational experience, do you see these three components supporting one another?<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/martybannernew.jpg' alt='martybannernew.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric H.F. Law, Episcopal priest and internationally known consultant on multiculturalism, in his book, Inclusion: Making Room for Grace, invites congregational leaders to think of their church ministries in three components. The three ministry components and descriptions are:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assessment","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}