Strategies
We've put together a number of different strategies to help you assess your particular situation and hopefully help resolve the problems. Please don't hesitate to contact us to be of more assistance. This list is a work in progress; check back for more as we continue to grow.
- Identifying Antagonists
- The Authority Of Your Position
- Pushing The Two Closer Together
- Giving Them Rope
- Just what should a pastor be doing?
- Preach to the flower in the middle of the cow pie
- Levels of conflict
- The problem has likely been there a long time
- Healthy Functioning in a dysfunctinoal system
- Pastors, Honey, Hives and Bees
- Levels of functioning
- Nominations Process For Unseating Despots
- Service of Renewal
- Congregational Covenants
- Considering The Costs
- The importance of Courage in the flock
- The importance of Courage in your own soul
- Reverse Psychology
- Shutting Down A Public Aggressor
Caution
You must know yourself well. You must also know your congregation. And if you are to survive when under heavy assault, you must also know your enemy. Yes - evil is our enemy, in whatever forms it presents itself. Even if that form is that of a 'faithful church member,' whose deceptive, destructive and determined behavior - far overshadows whatever 'words of faith' they may profess.
When under assault, it is critical that you be able to think more clearly than at any other time in your life. Taking care of yourself when under attack is the first and best thing you can do. You must also be wise enough to know what will work in your own situation and what may backfire. These options are included for your reflection and consideration. Do not implement any of them without speaking with a coach in advance.