Pastors

Why is it that some leaders quit pastoring, even after years of doing so, and move in a completely different direction?

When I first began serving in local church ministry, a pastor told me that “church is a great place to hide out and a great place to burn out.”

The idea that God is somehow pulling the levers behind the screen of life is what I call Christian fatalism: God is all-powerful. His will cannot be denied. Therefore, everything that happens must have been part of his plan from the beginning. He was behind everything all along.

"Your pastors probably aren’t going to tell you these things."

When a pastor commits adultery, most of their fellow pastors believe they should withdraw from public ministry for at least some time.

Jesus made satisfaction for our debt, our enmity with God, and our guilt. However, there is another significant word that is often used in descriptions of the atonement: substitution.

I love seeing people changed by the love God. But regardless of how much God decides to use me, I alone cannot change people. This is God’s job, not mine.

Thom Rainer talked about seven pastoring mistakes he had made in his ministry. Give him credit, he admitted that if he wrote about all the mistakes he’d made in the Lord’s work, “it would have to be a multi-volume series!”