The Challenges of Acceptability and Predictability
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ During the COVID-19 Pandemic I have been reading a lot of books. Many are about popular or historic leaders, and some are written by noteworthy leaders. As I read the various perspectives on leadership, I am reminded of a framework shared with me by a friend and colleague almost 40 years […]
Itβs Time to Assess Your Online Appeal
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ In dialogue with ministry colleagues, one person suggested that for many years we sought to impress on churches the need to have an attractive curb appeal. A couple of decades ago as websites because a popular way for people to learn about congregations, the conversation added the idea of website appeal. […]
Taking the Long View of the PPP Loans for Churches
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ When COVID-19 struck the USA β and the world β over the last six to eight months, when businesses shut down, the stock market tanked, and millions of people lost their jobs temporarily or permanently, one of the responses from the federal government was the Payroll Protection Program administered by the […]
Insights for Congregations from the Writings of Jim Collins
Insights for Congregations from the Writings of Jim Collins This is a list of 118 insights compiled by George Bullard and with his implications. Feel free to download the list and using in your ministry. George Bullard, www.BullardJournal.org, July 1, 2020
Insights about Baptist Associations
Insights About Baptist Associations with an Emphasis on Those Which Developed within the Southern Baptist Denomination This is a list of 97 insights compiled by George Bullard. Feel free to download the list and using in your ministry. George Bullard, www.BullardJournal.org, June 30, 2020
Blowing a Certain Trumpet During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ During the COVID-19 Pandemic, one of the greatest stressors is uncertainty. No one knows for sure exactly the right thing to do. Almost everyone has never been down this road before. A few people have seen somewhat similar crises. HIV/AIDS. Ebola. Sars. But no one alive and serving in a leadership […]
Vulnerable Churches
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic we have heard dialogue about people who are more vulnerable to this coronavirus than are others. Much of the conversation has focused on older people, people in assisted living or nursing homes, people without easy access to health care, lower-income people or racial and ethnic minorities, and […]
I Am My Father (and, of course, my mother too)
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ This Father’s Day is the 33rd one without my father. If you live long enough, then it has been a long time since various events — good or bad — happened in your life. I was 37 when my father died. It was obvious when he was alive, and it is […]
Keeping the Iron of Racial Redemption and Reconciliation Hot!
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ At some point in your life you have likely heard the idiomatic phrase “strike while the iron is hot”. Most likely when you heard it, the reference was not to the craft of a blacksmith. In the blacksmith situation the phrase means to pound on a piece of metal — especially […]
Everyone Seems to Be Worried About the Kids When We Return to Church. What About the Workers?
Also view at https://www.facebook.com/pg/BullardNetwork/notes/ During the recent primary elections in the United States, the voting process was hampered by several factors. One of them was that many of the poll workers were senior adults and other vulnerable people who were the needed volunteers and chose not to work at the polling places because of their […]