Healthy leadership is a humbling experience. When it ceases to be humbling leadership is heading into dangerous territory. From Eric Geiger: Leadership is most dangerous when it ceases to be humbling, when success comes to the leader. When a leader starts to thrive, when the Lord grants success, and/or when things go better than planned, …
Sometimes conflict is unavoidable in pastoral life. But having a passion for conflict is not helpful. To put it mildly. Winn Collier’s fictional pastor, Jonas McAnn: I’ve known a few pastors always licking their chops for a fight. I once heard a pastor recount to a group of other pastors how he had delivered an …
On two stages of being a pastor. A title received at once, a role you become as you live into it. The work worthy of a life indeed. From Love Big Be Well: You’ve entrusted me with this place among you, but I know I must show myself trustworthy and earn the deeper belonging, the …
Jared Wilson points out that pastors must model the pattern of life they long to see in the Christians they serve. A plurality of elders in a congregation helps provide a broader balance of these qualities. From Wilson’s article: If we want our churches to be of one mind, to be of one heart, to …
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