Pastors

There are numerous reasons why people have become disillusioned with the American Evangelical church. Out of my own heart and with my ear to the ground, I’ve listed out at least fifteen reasons why.

As believers, we can be encouraged that God wants to give us a specific kind of help during difficult seasons like these. We don’t just go with the flow of culture, but we flow with the wind of the Holy Spirit. 

Life will likely not return to the old "normal" we experienced prior to the onset of the pandemic. And, truth be told, for most of us it shouldn’t. It certainly shouldn’t for much of Christ’s church.

“What is the matter with the world?” Martyn Lloyd-Jones asked. “Why . . . war and all this unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? . . . There is only one answer to these questions—sin. Nothing else; it is just sin.”

When considering reasons not to homeschool we must also understand that there are also families in our congregations that cannot educate their children at home for various reasons, most of them noble and sincere.

Much attention given to pastors at conferences is pointed to a stereotype of a younger pastor. A person who is often overlooked is the more senior pastor who has been ministering with excellence for decades.

There are secrets the pastor's wife will never tell you. I asked a panel of pastors’ wives, “If you could tell the church a few things about your role, what would you say?” Their responses were strangely similar.

In any local church, you’re dealing with a conglomerate of unique individuals. To shepherd them is kind of like herding cats, just harder!