Tim Dyer – The Johnmark Extension
Teaching and training events
Great to be back at Sydney Missionary and Bible College today to teach on conflict in Christian Communities.
We covered the reasons churches are both conflict prone and conflict averse. Looked at the dynamics of conflict, How to analyse a conflict and prepare well for facing it. We finished with some reflection on Matt 18 and the processes of dealing with interpersonal conflict.
Continue reading “SMBC Pastoral Care–Conflict in the Church Workshop”
The vocation of Christian ministry is one of the most complex and demanding of all leadership tasks. Ministry requires not just personal, spiritual, and theological foundations, but a wide range of individual and communal people skills. It brings wonderful encouragements but can also generate deep spiritual and emotional exhaustion. Ministry can stress family relationships and place pressure on friendships. These ordinary forms of support, often more easily available to others, are complicated in ministry by the places and times in which we are called to serve. And ministry also engages us in conflict. Our desire is to see the grace of God transform ourselves, our church communities and society around us. That challenge and change is not always welcome and there are real personal costs in leading others to become faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. We are painfully aware that not all find pathways through these pressures and stresses.
I am enjoying be part of the Safe as Churches training conference in Sydney. Notes from my presentation are available below:
Building Resilience in Congregations Presentation
I enjoyed being at Edge Church in Doncaster to spend the day with Victorian Baptist pastors and Churches of Christ pastors discussing healthy ministry.
Notes and resources follow.
Continue reading “BUV and CCCVT Training Day in Healthy Ministry for Pastors”
Great to have another day on Monday with 20 or so facilitators of Focus in Ministry Retreats with the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. We worked this year on Personality in Ministry issues, Reslience, Difficult conversations and disclosures in retreats. Notes are all in our dropbox. It was particularly good to celebrate 20 years of retreats with a visit from Les Scarborough who founded the retreats.
