When I graduated from seminary 25 years ago, I had no business pastoring a church. Yet that’s what I did.
I had learned theology, and I had developed the beginnings of a
“Shepherd the flock of God that is among you … And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.” (1 Peter 5:2-4)
It’s both humbling and liberating
A friend of mine pastors an established church. I am planting a new church. We have more in common than we think.
Don’t get me wrong. There are huge differences in what
“So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: