Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Who Is Responsible For Your Growth?
There are two ways to look at everything and this post from MMI is one of them. Todd links to a post which argues:
Time to get very pointed. Everybody quoted in this stuff is pastors that from my perspective appear called to be evangelists. They want the church to exist to support their evangelistic efforts. That frankly is not what a pastor is called to. A pastor is called to shepherd the community that is the church. That dear friends is why Timothy stayed in one place a lot and Paul kept moving.
There are a lot of pastors out there that need to reexamine their call. Instead of whining about how church people are not maturing, they need to LEAD THEM TO MATURITY.
If you want to be an evangelist, then by all means, be one. But do not confuse that with pastoring a church.
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In reality, as followers of Jesus, we are called to feed ourselves and feed others who are new in the faith.Now, on the agreement side with this post is the fact that it is in large part a call for the average Christian to take his/her faith seriously. Quoting Perry Noble:
"Today as Christians we have WAY more information than we could ever apply. However, I think many people use 'going deep' as an excuse as to not actually apply any of the knowledge they claim to be soaking up.But on the other hand this very much seems to be a call that confuses the job of the evangelist with the job of the church. The church is called to be much more than merely a resource for the "mature" Christian. The church is intended to be the COMMUNITY in which the mature Christian dwells and from which he/she reaches out to the greater world.
Time to get very pointed. Everybody quoted in this stuff is pastors that from my perspective appear called to be evangelists. They want the church to exist to support their evangelistic efforts. That frankly is not what a pastor is called to. A pastor is called to shepherd the community that is the church. That dear friends is why Timothy stayed in one place a lot and Paul kept moving.
There are a lot of pastors out there that need to reexamine their call. Instead of whining about how church people are not maturing, they need to LEAD THEM TO MATURITY.
If you want to be an evangelist, then by all means, be one. But do not confuse that with pastoring a church.
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