Refreshing insights into the process of pastoral searches can be found in this interview with Michael Lawrence. Pastoral moves, and I refer to the Presbyterian system here in Australia, are not generally open. I remember as a student providing a supply service one Sunday for a nearby church whose then pastor was ‘away for the …

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More from Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). The contemporary weight of confused expectations about role and function can lead to pastors being unclear about their own identity in Christ. To be of service to the Holy Spirit, who is at work in human lives, the pastor can never reduce ministry to …

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