Pastors Are Shepherds, Not Superheroes
Maybe it’s time we change the narrative. Expect your pastor to be a shepherd, not a superhero. Don’t demand their presence at every event or their attention at every moment.
Maybe it’s time we change the narrative. Expect your pastor to be a shepherd, not a superhero. Don’t demand their presence at every event or their attention at every moment.
It is our responsibility as leaders to reintroduce a generation to the true essence of Jesus and his original vision for the church.
Evangelism is not an add-on to our ministries. It is the very heart of our calling.
Jesus seems to have an unhurried pace. That is to say, he always seems to have time to stop for people, even when doing so was annoying to those around him.
Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.
A. Larry Ross, who traveled the world for nearly 34 years as personal media spokesman for evangelist Billy Graham, says the new epicenter for evangelism is the Global South and Nigerian evangelist William Kumuyi as the pastor of “the largest church of which most American Christians have never heard.”
It’s not polished or loud, but if you listen closely, from university chapels in the U.S. to underground house churches in the Middle East, you’ll hear it: a hunger for truth, a yearning for something real.
What would it take for every person to know at least one person whose life is being changed by Jesus?
How you treat people who are new to your church can be the difference between your church growing or getting stuck.
Many years before the birth of Jesus Christ, God becoming a child, there was a prophecy in Isaiah 9:2, 6–7 that declared the coming of this child as the hope and wonder of this world.