Peter Adam provides what is titled Advice To A Young Preacher, but his points are worth revisiting at any age or stage in preaching experience. This one is challenging when producing sermons in a most individualistic age and culture: Recognize that most of the Bible is actually addressed to God’s people, not to individuals. Even …
Jared Wilson outlines five ways the Gospel shapes and empowers pastoral ministry. Here’s one of his four points. In the trenches of day-to-day ministry work, it can become tragically easy to think of the whole thing as a managerial enterprise. We plan and program, we mentor and coach, we write and preach. The relational work …
Jamie Brown writes from the perspective of leading musical praise in a local church, but the principle is true for all leaders, including pastors. There is always a danger of building trust, but never calling on that trust to be expressed; just as expecting trust continually without ever earning it does not build relationships. Pastors …
All seven of these are helpful. Here’s a couple: Don’t take yourself too seriously. Ministry is serious business—the gospel, life and death ministry situations, leadership expectations, and all the rest. But the seriousness of our ministry should not lead to become coldly sober or overtly austere. Pastors should be accessible and authentic. Laughing at yourself …
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