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 …
Tullian Tchividjian, motivated by concern that those who serve alongside him in leadership are living and modelling gospel saturated lives, asks this question of his fellow elders and deacons: Do you rejoice in position, power, accomplishments, entitlement, control, degrees, knowledge, status, authority, numbers, and rank? Or do you rejoice in service, mercy, sacrifice, pastoral care, …
From Sacred Sandwich.
Mark Dever converses with Mark Driscoll and James MacDonald about multi-site churches. It is an interesting video to watch. Dever listens and tries to unpack how multi-site eventually becomes multi-church. The numbers of people they talk about make it challenging to relate to local circumstances, but the idea of a significant amount of Bible teaching …
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