Do you ever have weeks where you just want to crawl up under a rock and disappear? Do you ever go through seasons where you wonder if you have completely misheard the voice of God in your life? These past few days I have felt that way. I have questioned whether or not I should be a pastor, wondered whether or not I will be able to some day lead [...]
Dear friends, If you are a seminary student or college student and are about to graduate and have no idea what you want to do with your life or have not found the position you were hoping for, please do not just assume that you can then go take a job working in youth ministry as a stepping stone before you figure out what comes next. Youth ministry is not [...]
I’m afraid to say Jesus probably wouldn’t have been allowed to be your pastor because he didn’t do programs. Our contemporary American Church has fallen in love with programs. The more quality programs we offer, the more likely people are to come to our church. The programming infatuation is at its core is an attractional model of doing church with the goal to draw in as many people as possible. [...]
I’m running a little series here on why if Jesus was alive today he probably wouldn’t be allowed to be a pastor at your church. Let’s take a look! I’m afraid to say that for most of our churches Jesus would not have the necessary formal education to be a pastor. In the American Church at large, intellectual knowledge is king. It’s clear from Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem as a [...]
Why Jesus Couldn’t Be Your Pastor: In most American mainline churches today there’s a general framework in which you are supposed to work and a certain profile you are supposed to have if you want to be a pastor. There are lots of spoken and unspoken expectations for pastors. These have led me to wonder whether or not Jesus would have met the necessary criteria to be a pastor in [...]
There are days when I feel flat and lethargic like a cold rubbery pancake. I dress myself up and put on a smile, but underneath the syrup I’m still the same. I gulp down a glass of orange juice too soon after brushing my teeth and it goes down bitter. Traces of pulp cling to the cup not wanting to leave, and I sympathize with them. We are all [...]
