The most counterintuitive way to pastor is to stop trying to build a platform and focus on the slow and hard work of relying on Christ and truly caring for a specific group of people you will answer for one day.
You’re probably familiar with the Pareto principle. In general, the principle states, 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. The takeaway is to focus on the few causes that
Most pastors serve in a small church. Even big-church pastors will probably serve in a small church at some point in their ministries. And yet small churches — and by extension, small church
I wrote about anemic churches last week. A couple of commenters asked me to explain how to identify whether a church is anemic or not. Here’s my best shot.
You can tell
Some churches are built on a foundation of entertainment and relevance. They need good pastors to go in and love them and feed them.
It’s not their fault, at least not entirely.