Pastors have something like this conversation with each other recurrently. Literally. source
Pastors have something like this conversation with each other recurrently. Literally. source
When faced with suffering, pastoral ministry does not try to fix the one who is suffering. Instead the one who suffers is taken seriously and offered a fellowship of faithful companionship to be with them in the darkness. This is not therapeutic, it is is ministry. Encouraging grief and suffering to be expressed in isolation, …
Here are some benefits of turning up to church early. (Roughly defined as more than 60-120 seconds before the appointed starting time, though in reality that’s actually arriving dead on time. Early would be sooner than that.) If you consider your attendance as ministry to others, rather than as something that you do, or something …
Sam Rainer observes the impacts on congregational life and ministry activity that flows from a contemporary change toward less frequent attendance at corporate worship by active Christians. The reality challenges traditional practices of pastoral care and congregational communication. For example: The church feels smaller but is actually larger. Consider a church that has four hundred …
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