by Michael Bayne | Jan 8, 2021 | church planting, leadership
If you lead a church, you will have people come, and people go. It’s not talked about often, but it’s a reality of serving in a church at any level. Sometimes you’re thankful that a difficult person has moved on, but more than often, people you love...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 18, 2020 | church planting, leadership
The past few weeks, we have explored the Enneagram and the pastor and the church. This week we want to step back and explore how the enneagram can be a tool to help you move toward emotional health. As a pastor, the lack of emotional health is really easy to see in...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 11, 2020 | church planting, leadership
The enneagram showed up in my pastoral life just at the right time. God used the enneagram to help me understand myself better and expose some emotional and spiritual areas of my life that needed attention. When we planted Greenville Community Church in 2018, we...
by Michael Bayne | Dec 4, 2020 | church planting, leadership
Five years ago, I hit a wall. I had navigated ministry in several high impact churches. I had led through times of deep pain and loss. I had also seen God do incredible things in the churches where I served, but it was difficult to celebrate see the good things in the...
by Michael Bayne | Nov 12, 2020 | church planting, leadership
Church planting and revitalization are hard work. I know it’s hard because I planted a church in 2018 and then one year later worked through the process of merging with another local church and navigating revitalization. Both seasons had different ups and downs....
by Michael Bayne | Sep 18, 2020 | church planting, communication, community, Greenville Community Church, leadership
The online experience, and the demand for it, is not going away after we move through the COVID-19 pandemic. Many smaller churches shifted to an online gathering when they could not meet in-person. In our context, we have decided that we will keep our online...
