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Leadership and Missions must Go TOGETHER
Mark McCleary Apr, 21, 2024- Cooperation
- Independence
- Independent Ministry
- Individual
- Leadership
- Ministry
- Mission
- Personal Ministry Activities
- Relationship
- Self and Organization
- Self-determination
Simon says "Follow the leader." Discipleship involves following a "qualified" or recognized leader. This is to say that effective activities need good organization of collective…
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The Courage of one’s conviction
Mark McCleary May, 05, 2020- Cooperation
- Independence
- Individual
- Micro and Macro
- Relationship
- Self and Organization
- Self-determination
- Thinking
"You get what you pay for." "A man's heart is where his treasure is." These aphorisms suggest that subjective conviction is observable in the empirical…
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Self and Society in Church, Ministry, and everyday life
Mark McCleary Mar, 25, 2020- Cooperation
- Independence
- Independent Ministry
- Individual
- Interdependence
- Ministry
- Relationship
- Self and Organization
- Social Conflict
My Ph. D. is in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. I sought this degree because I observed Christian folk in conflict and past attempts to deal…
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We are in this TOGETHER, how can we get along productively?
Mark McCleary Nov, 13, 2019"Birds of a feather, flock together." "By associating we assimilate." "By beholding, we become changed." I view these three adages as related and speaking to…
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The challenge of Independence and Interdependence
Mark McCleary Apr, 12, 2019"No man is an island unto himself" (John Donne). I embrace this assertion, but have pastored and observed church folk and society struggling with self-determination…
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Resolving to Systematically and Consistently Study the Bible
Mark McCleary Dec, 26, 2018I was taught by my mother, my maternal grandparents and many SDA Church "mentors" to value and study the Bible. Since then and over the…
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An Independent Ministry should be defined by its Best Practices
Mark McCleary Dec, 18, 2018An Independent Ministry should be defined by its Best Practices Vision, Mission, and Objectives and not Organizational Phobia I have been a baptized member of…