Last year I posted on pastoral transitions in the Presbyterian Church of Australia. Here’s a post on the 9Marks site advocating that the elders of a church should lead the situation of pastoral succession (organically) rather than create a special committee to do the task. The post points to articles by Mark Dever and Bobby …
Michael Jensen identifies and expands on nine forms of aberrant Christian leadership, along with theological solutions for each, at Blogging Parson. Recognise any (hopefully not all) of these? 1. The Narcissist 2. The Control Freak 3. The Wimp 4. The ‘I don’t do windows’ leader 5. The Macho 6. The Member of the Guild 7. …
From Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). As a minor poet, the pastor doesn’t simply tell people to be satisfied with their limited lives but instead helps them to find the joy and sacred purposes to these limits. Some of the things that are missing from the garden are good and certainly …
A word of encouragement for pastors, and by extension all Christians, from Justin Buzzard reminding us of the famous interaction between John Wesley and Peter Bohler: Most of us live life feeling our way towards an action, rather than acting our way towards a feeling. We have it backwards. Instead, we ought to act our …
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