Correcting a Pastoral Model in the Contemporary Church Walk with Teams I knew “the buck stops hereâ€, with me. But I had wonderfully gifted people around me to sound out my ideas, check my leadings from the Lord, and make up for my deficiencies in ministry and...
Walk With the People Isolated Pastors The idea of ordination to the ministry is, at best, unhelpful. All believers are in the ministry of Christ. The moment pastors see their ordination as giving them special powers or spiritual privileges, they unnecessarily isolate...
The Garden of Your Soul In the last post, I touched on the need for those in pastoral ministry to resist the lone ranger approach. I highlighted an unfortunate tradition in many churches of looking at the Pastor as the one who is “in sole charge of the churchâ€....
The 1945 Rogers and Hammerstein anthem assures us we’ll never walk alone. Indeed, no one should ever have to walk alone. But many do. That was never God’s intention. He made us for spiritual connection, socially-rooted in family and community and...
In these last days the Lord Jesus is raising up a strong, overcoming and victorious church. Through tribulation, opposition, ridicule and persecution, the church is being shaped and refined to the beautiful bride of Christ. One night, a number of years ago, I had a...