Guy Sayles is a consultant and coach with the Center for Healthy Churches and an adjunct faculty member at the Gardner Webb School of Divinity. He served for 13 years as pastor of First Baptist Church, Asheville, North Carolina, and four years as an assistant professor of religion at Mars Hill University. He blogs regularly at From The Intersection.org.
In these unprecedented times, it’s important for all of us to remember that, because we’ve never been precisely here before, there is no template, map, app or handbook for the right way to lead and to be church.