Transitioning
It’s very hard to follow a pastor who founded the church, or whose tenure really marked a church, as I commented the other day. Hard, but not impossible.
In last Sunday’s
pastoring
Spurgeon’s Advice for Pastors in Cities
Spurgeon offered this advice to his students who pastored in cities:
If you have to labour in a large town, I should recommend you to familiarize yourself, wherever your place of worship may
“That man forgets himself”
Spurgeon recounts a story by Abbé Mullois in Lectures to My Students. It’s a great story for those of us who are tempted to think that God uses us when we are
Messy Churches
One of the realities about churches is that they are messy. Even – especially – the good ones. I’ve always liked what Eugene Peterson said about pastoring:
Pastoral work consists of modest, daily, assigned
The Idolatry of Pastoring
Jack Miller to a pastor in conflict:
It’s hard for me to escape the conclusion that you are getting your identity from pastoring, and this identity is being substituted for a personal