by Doug Van Meter | 11 Nov 2009 | Articles
Recently, I had breakfast with a man from our church and one of the topics of conversation was leadership in the workplace. He made a very helpful comment: “Sometimes making a bad decision is better than making no decision.” That is, there are times when a business...
by Doug Van Meter | 7 Sep 2009 | Articles
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines “ethos” as “the characteristic spirit and beliefs of a community.” Every family has a particular “spirit,” as does an individual, a workplace and certainly a church. Perhaps “atmosphere” or “personality” would be good synonyms....
by Doug Van Meter | 8 Apr 2009 | Articles
One of the obvious characteristics of BBC is the number of men that attend the services and are involved in the body life of the church. Truly BBC is into to manly “body building.” Of course, I am not referring to physical body building—although, kilogram for...
by Doug Van Meter | 11 Mar 2009 | Articles
In the early 1980s the contemporary music scene burst on the scene with a few well-known artists. One such group was called Glad. It was composed of four or five men, who sang totally accapella. I still have a cassette (for those younger than fifteen, that was an...
by Doug Van Meter | 7 Jan 2009 | Articles
Last year, a friend of mine who has been a pastor at the same church for many years wrote and said that he was considering resigning as the pastor-teacher of his church. He had come to the conclusion that the church needed a new pastor. He was concerned that the...
by Doug Van Meter | 10 Apr 2008 | Articles
In the last two issues of the Pastors’ Pen, I have addressed the issue of what constitutes formal church membership and have argued against the practice of informal membership. In this article, I want to tackle the issue of active versus inactive membership. In much...
