Assistant vs. apprentice

Assistant vs. apprentice

Do you have assistants at your church or apprentices? An assistant is someone who helps you do your work. An apprentice is someone you’re raising up to do what you do. An assistant is a helper. There’s no expectation in the title that they’ll eventually do the job...

Vocabulary matters

When I was pastoring a church, we used to have a membership class. However, we realized that by calling it membership class, that meant people had to pre-decide that they wanted to become members before attending. So we had people getting involved and hanging around...