
Pastoring is Weird
Pastoring is not just weird, pastoring is hard. Statistics show that 85% of seminary graduates who enter ministry will leave ministry in the first 5 years.
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“Ordinary Radicals: A Return to Christ-Centered Discipleship” unfolds, with honest open-heart questions, how we think about the gospel in our lives. The gospel you believe, determines the disciple you make. Radical discipleship is about nothing more and nothing less than laying bare the roots of the gospel.
Pastoring is not just weird, pastoring is hard. Statistics show that 85% of seminary graduates who enter ministry will leave ministry in the first 5 years.
Here are 3 reasons why anonymous letters are “useless” and goes straight to the trash pile in ministry settings.
How can we help others grow in spiritual maturity? How can we help our children to be more Christ-like?
Be willing to make mistakes and learn from your mistakes.
How does the Bible inform and help navigate through the mind of a master manipulator? How can we identify and examine whether we are master manipulators?
1`What is a local church and why do they exist? If there’s no alignment, then everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes.
How are Christians to respond to this entire month of June for being a Pride month? How can we model and emulate Christ amid all that people are going through?
Does what I think, what I feel, what I do glorify the Name of my Lord? I believe that question alone can become a wise counsel that can eliminate 90% of the issues dealt with in life.
Satan wants to split the church in half like our country is divided in so many areas. Satan wants to do everything in the church to bring division and get Christians off the course!
The number of ministers across denominational lines that either have or will experience forced termination is 1/3.
The sad reality is that these sorts of conversations I have as a pastor and as a biblical counselor are quite common.
Today in the 21st century, it is not easy being a Christian.
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What do you do when you find “pride” in your pastor? How would you feel when you find out your “lead pastor” is maybe a control freak?
What do you do when the one you love is wayward? How do you go about having gospel conversation with family members?
Don’t want to be stuck in past circumstances, that influences the present moments, which unbales you to move towards the future opportunities.
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