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Showing posts with label compassion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compassion. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How should a pastor deal with disgruntled members?

With compassion, suggests Enid, Okla., pastor Wade Burleson in a meditation on ministerial leadership.

Compassion and diplomacy rather than, we submit, some version of alienating hardball, which tends to grind otherwise lifelong relationships to dust while damaging individuals, families and institutions.

How should a pastor deal with disgruntled members?

With compassion, suggests Enid, Okla., pastor Wade Burleson in a meditation on ministerial leadership.

Compassion and diplomacy rather than, we submit, some version of alienating hardball, which tends to grind otherwise lifelong relationships to dust while damaging individuals, families and institutions.