John Upton is President of the Baptist World Alliance and Executive Director of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board.
Tag Archives: leadership
A Twelve Month Plan To Energize Your Pastor & Church Staff
In a couple weeks I am leading a “Breakout Session” in a conference for key leaders in churches from across the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The breakout session is titled: “How To Energize Your Pastor and Staff.” I prepared a full session, with a slide show, video, bells & whistles – you know what [...]
Vinyls, Eight-tracks, Cassettes, CDs, Ipods
We are continuing the theme from two recent blogs (learning lessons from Joshua 3). We know that the people of Israel are on a journey with God. We’ve said to move forward with God, they need to “leave Shittim” (an actual place in the Ancient Near East). Basically they need to leave some old things [...]
Leaving “Shittim”
Read Joshua 3 “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.” Ever since I was a kid and first heard Captain James T. Kirk speak [...]
