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# Congregational expectations
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2003624congregational-expectations-html/
- Published: 2003-06-24T19:30:45.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:43:50.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

From [Waving or Drowning?](http://www.miketodd.ca/web/archives/000443.html?ref=dashhouse.com) :

> "I am having the depressing experience of reading congregational descriptions of what churches want in a pastor. With hardly an exception they don't want pastors at all – they want managers of their religious company. They want a pastor they can follow so they won't have to bother with following Jesus anymore." (Eugene Peterson)