Nine Ways Your Church Can Help Your Pastor Continue to Grow
Your church has a role to play in the spiritual growth of your pastor. Here are nine things.
Your church has a role to play in the spiritual growth of your pastor. Here are nine things.
What shoud a church member should know about their pastor? This article suggests five things.
This article offers wisdom for a pastor in the first year of his ministry: spend time getting to know the flock, do not try and change things, work hard at preaching and teaching, pray for God's help and be patient, and work on being healthy.
This article considers what is the pastor's best approach when entering a dysfunctional, dying congregation: be a pastor to the flock.
This article offers seven reasons for a pastor to pursue devotion to God.
How is a pastor to deal with attacks from fellow ministry leaders, or even members of the flock? This article provides a list of eight points to consider when false accusations, unfair criticism, and slander come at the pastor.
What should be the priorities of a pastor? This article answers by considering the role of shepherds. It discusses how the kings of Israel often failed to serve as shepherds, but how the Lord Jesus was the perfect shepherd of his sheep. The article issues a call to imitate the Chief Shepherd.
This article explains how the pastor's calling is theological. The author shows from the New Testament, particularly Paul's letters to Timothy, that the reading, teaching, preaching, and study of Scripture are all inherently theological.
This article laments the transformation of theology into an academic discipline more associated with the university than the church. The author speaks of the need for the pastor in the local church to function as a theologian.
Studies have shown that the average pastor quits a church within his first five years of ministry there. This article offers seven things that every pastor must remember when tempted to quit.
A productive pastor is a great blessing to the church. How do you gain productivity as a pastor? Here are ten tips you can follow.
Do you enjoy being a pastor? There are thirty reasons that make pastoral work great, and this article unpacks them.
This article offers some encouragement for a pastor to love his wife by first walking with God.
Every true pastor wants to care for God's church in a good way. This article discusses twelve marks of good pastoral ministry.
This article offers an thorough answer to the question, "Whom does the pastor shepherd?"
In this essay, the author offers some lexical observations on the use of words like "preacher," "preaching," and "proclamation" in the New Testament. This article makes a distinction between a pastor of a local church and a preacher with a missionary calling. The use of these terms in the apostolic fathers is also noted.
Using an example from the world of music, this author illustrates the kind of commitment and humility that is required in leaders. These qualities are required in pastors as leaders of the church, and fit with Ephesians 4:15-16.
After seeing how difficult a calling the ministry can be, why would anyone want to be a minister? This article answers that God makes the pastor, and prepares the way for him from childbirth. The apostle Paul is an illustration of this. It is God's power that makes men useful to his ministry. A minister will therefore not be proud, since he is only an instrument of God's hand.
What is the work of the pastor? This article maintains that a fundamental aspect of the work of the minister is teaching doctrine (1 Timothy 4:13). The author describes what it means to teach doctrine and what this teaching should look like. In order to fulfill this task, the pastor must also value reading.
Looking at 1 Timothy 4:16, this article shows how the pastor should set priorities in his life.
How should the minister view the congregation? How should the preacher address sin in the congregation? The author looks at the way Paul addresses the church, and what it means that the pastor is preaching to the church of Christ. He also looks at the place of the promises of God, faith and repentance in the preaching.
This article is about the call to the ministry and the pastor's internal and external call (the call from God and the call from the church).
This article looks at the church government principles of John Calvin and the Genevan Church Order. The article also focuses on the position of the pastors and elders, and the importance of church discipline.
Church members are prone to forget that their pastor is one of them. Here is a reminder about how to minister to your pastor and what you can hope for as a result.
This article is a reflection on Richard Baxter's The Reformed Pastor. This work discusses the nature of the pastor's task in the congregation.