Pastoral compensation is important. While it isnt always a make-or-break factor in a healthy relationship between a pastor and his churchs governing boards, discussing pastor compensation is nevertheless an important one.
We create opportunities by initiating conversations, listening closely to others, and taking those conversations clearly and concisely to the gospel.
York Moore, who has the benefit of observing decades of evangelistic outreach, is equally bullish about the avenue TikTok evangelism for the gospel has opened. He says that we could be seeing the greatest evangelistic opportunity in American history.
Secularism has said that if we had more education, more science and better government, we’d have a good life. But the COVID pandemic showed us that science alone wasn’t enough to guarantee a good life. The War in Ukraine has shown us that education and good government aren’t enough either. As Sayers says, “It’s as if the tide of the gospel has gone so far out that the sheer weight of the gospel is going to come rushing back in.” This is not a threat to the gospel, but an opportunity. There is a vacuum out there that longs to be filled.
Making sure your trip is a meaningful one
We never graduate to be above a trial. They will always come on this side of heaven. But we can be better prepared to walk through them if we are willing to listen to God in the middle of them. God used my getting sick for a few days to teach me to be honest with myself — how am I really?
Our inherent personality traits, emotional makeup, and “nature”are so strong, that as the parable states – even when it hurts us, we still can’t help it.
We must always ask ourselves where Babylon today is asking us to conform.
The church is not designed to be a shield protecting the Christian bubble of safety. Rather, the church is a vehicle engineered by God to send people into the darkest corners of the neighborhood, focusing on helping children in need.
