Do Your Employees Truly Qualify for Minister’s Taxation?
Determining who qualifies as a minister for tax purposes can be challenging — and misclassification can be costly. This article will help you properly classify your ministerial staff and avoid the risk...
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Webcast Church Services
Rob Cizek My legal friend Frank Sommerville, JD, notes that “copyright licenses that are mandatory for all music. Without the proper licenses, the church can face fines and penalties. These licenses...
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Dealing With Guardian Ad-Litem Requests and Custody Cases: When Divorce...
Rob Cizek Nothing pains like divorce … especially when children are involved. While divorce is a family matter, it can spill into the workplace through child custody disputes. This can be quite...
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8 Key Aspects For Writing Your Financial Policy
Dr. David Fletcher When it comes to operating a church, a foundational document is the Finance Policy. If a poorly written Finance Policy is executed well, then the Policy can strike fear into any...
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Care & Correction or Shaming At Watermark Community Church?
Dr. David Fletcher Drawn from a Case Study on Church Discipline with National Media Attention As printed by Church Executive magazine, Summer 2007 Newspapers screamed the headline, “Is Public Shaming...
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Care & Correction or Shaming at Watermark Community Church: Full Case Study
Dr. David Fletcher The newspapers screamed headlines such as “Is Public Shaming by the Church Legal?” and “Church, ex-member battle over discipline.” The story ran from coast to coast and was fodder in...
View ArticleRisk Management for Churches and the Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God moves and grows forcefully throughout the world. The blood of the martyrs testifies to the spiritual battles that have been waged throughout the annals of time towards the church....
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Free Ministers 2012 Tax Guide from GuideStone
My friends at GuideStone are making this resource available to the XPastor community. They have been sponsors of the Seminar for six years and have given me great help in my retirement planning. Enjoy...
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Standards of Care are Rising for Church Planters and Missionaries
Greg Love Douglas W. Myers was a Baptist pastor and church planter. Myers allegedly received training and funds from the Florida Baptist Convention (Convention), and others, in connection with planting...
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Sexual Abuse Safety Issues in Ministry
Greg Love In recent years, our society has begun to understand the widespread nature of child sexual abuse. Studies indicate that one female child out of every three and one male child out of seven...
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Change in Florida Sexual Abuse Law
Greg Love How has the law changed? How does this change in law affect you? Will this impact other states’ laws? On April 26, 2010, Florida lawmakers passed a bill removing the statute of limitations...
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The First Amendment
David Middlebrook Why the Court Won’t Hear Your Church Fight Hypothetical situation: A church’s board of directors opposes the pastor, not agreeing with a certain vision or course of action, each...
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Copyright Issues Affecting Churches
David Middlebrook Think twice before singing that new worship song next Sunday or before using that scene from a popular movie as an illustration in your sermon. Believe it or not, even with the very...
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Checking References
Dr. David Fletcher If you had spent $175 you could have saved big money … Gregory Love and Kimberly Norris outline a fascinating court case in the article below. Here is an amazing quote from one of...
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Is Your Church Having a Super Bowl® Party?
David Middlebrook Matt Anthony XPastor and many others have benefited from the counsel of David Middlebrook & Matt Anthony at The Church Law Group. David & Matt will be presenting at the 2013...
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Legal Use of Movies and Music in Sermons
David MiddlebrookAttorneyThe Church Law Group I’m reading Church Law’s Guide to Intellectual Property right now. It is a helpful work in trying to navigate the legal and practical issues. Check out...
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Denial won’t make it go away!
Denial won’t make it go away! Gregory S. Love, Esq. & Kimberlee D. Norris, Esq. Greg Love In 2012, five employees at Victory Christian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma were arrested for a two-week delay...
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How to Launch a Risk Management Program
How to Launch a Risk Management Program Deborah Wipf “What event might occur that could take out our church?” Drop that question at the next staff meeting and you’ll feel the tone of the room take a...
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Overtime & the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Overtime & the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Dr. David FletcherFounder, XPastor Do you believe in slavery? Because we believe in the dignity of all people, we have enacted various laws to...
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Crisis Management for Churches and Ministries
David Middlebrook Crises can even hit a church or ministry. Are you prepared? David Middlebrook of the Church Law Group lays out some foundational steps to mitigate the potential damage of a...
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