
Change: When It Helps and When It Hurts Your Church
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
It’s good to communicate appreciation to your Pastor throughout the year. And since 1992, many churches have been celebrating October as Clergy Appreciation Month with the second Sunday of October becoming Pastor Appreciation Day more recently. It’s good to have it on your church calendar!
Pastors need encouragement especially after COVID-19 scrambled the church world. Many are fighting mental health issues as the pressure of switching to online services, increased leadership issues, and implementing necessary changes in this post-COVID world. That leadership needs to be appreciated.
Dr. Gary Chapman, a good friend, and North Carolina native, wrote the classic book, The 5 Love Languages to explain that everyone receives love differently. To effectively “speak” or communicate appreciation to your Pastor, it’s like speaking love. And Christ-followers are to be known for love! Paul in 1 Timothy 5:17 concentrates our love onto good church elders (especially those preaching and teaching). Saying that they are worthy of double honor! Let’s do that.
Using the structure of The 5 Love Languages (and Dr. Chapman’s follow-up book, 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace), here are 5 practical ways to communicate appreciation to your Pastor. Don’t know which language they want? Often people prefer what they practice well.
At the close of every season, wise leaders pause to reflect. They celebrate what’s been accomplished, identify what worked well,
Every week families arrive at church. They walk through the main doors and head down familiar paths toward “their” seat.
When a legal expert asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?” it followed the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”
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