Why Pastors have no friends explains why pastors keep their congregation at a distance instead of having some of the congregation as their close, personal friends.
David Cox
How a 21st Century Pastor Studies
How a 21st Century Pastor Studies is an explanation of how I (a pastor) make sermons, in sermon preparation, easier using the tools of today.
Church Management, Baptist Popes
Church Management, Baptist Popes refute the practice of Baptist dictators who micromanage the Church of Christ.
Is less Pastoring better?
Is less pastoring better? is my opinion about the great need for MORE pastoring of our people instead of less pastoring, less interaction with people’s problems. I read an article named, 4 Starter Ideas for the Care and Treatment of an Unhealthy Church, and in it, it mentions the growing idea that less pastoring is somehow better than more. (I don’t think the author is in favor of that position).
Don’t Demonize your people
I have been a pastor for some 36 years now. Most of those years have been on the mission field, in a church that I worked starting (church planter). I have seen a lot of things both in my own work and in the many hundreds of churches that we have visited while on deputation. Let me explain what I mean by this post title (“Don’t demonize your people.”). Most commonly the pastor (and/or his wife) have problems with individuals in the congregation. This is ALWAYS going to happen. Want a perfect church? Run everybody off, and then resign, and that is about as close as you will get.