Tim Chester offers three observations in response to a question about what it means when a church is not growing numerically. 1. It could be that you are seeing little fruit because you’re doing something wrong. One possibility is that you’re doing something wrong or that you’re not cut out as a lead church planter. …
Thom Rainer collates responses from seventeen pastors who experienced burnout and recovered. No surprises that it’s a good list to help prevent falling into burnout in the first place. And that the principles transfer to other situations, as well. As usual, there are helpful quotes appended to these at the original post on Rainer’s blog. …
Back when I was testing my call to pastoral ministry a phrase I kept encountering was ‘pastor’s heart’. I don’t hear it so much these days amid discussions about various skill sets which are considered desirable for pastors. Thabiti Anyabwile expresses the central necessity of a pastor’s heart in this post from his blog, in …
Learning how to really listen is the hardest and most constantly challenging part of being a disciple of Jesus and a pastor. The temptation is to jump in with answers, as if that will bring God’s power to the situation. We’re not the first response team. God is always here before us. What is he …
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