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# From teacher to facilitator
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2003925from-teacher-to-facilitator-html/
- Published: 2003-09-25T03:23:17.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:43:37.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Uncategorized, #DashHouseCom, #wp

> For years, we’ve elevated teaching to the exclusion of other gifts. Paul described the church in terms of a body. Whether we realize it or not, we’re walking around with a body that’s grossly out of proportion to our head. Our obsession with teaching has made us a caricature of what God intended. The shift from teacher to facilitator ultimately requires wrestling with our own motivations. The bitter, resentful, angry pastor is not a pretty picture – and yet it’s a reality in many churches. The more worship is decentralized, the more humility is required. After years being the star of the show, many pastors find it hard to take a back seat and let others take the spotlight. Becoming a facilitator requires dying to pride and recognizing just how much identity we’ve drawn from our position of power. (Spencer Burke, [*Making Sense of the Church*](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031025499X/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com))

I’m 65 pages into [MSOC](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031025499X/dashhouse-20?ref=dashhouse.com) and it’s even better than I had hoped. There’s only one or two books a year that make me want to go and buy a stack to give out to my friends, and this is one of them. **Update**: More good thoughts at [Jordon’s blog](http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/2003%5F09%5F01%5Farchives.html?ref=dashhouse.com#106450708922946527) and at the [MSOC website](http://www.theooze.com/msoc/?ref=dashhouse.com).