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Pastor Link
A website especially for NZ Pastors and Church Leaders
Pastors.com:
Rick Warren's Web Site for Pastors and Church Leaders
Pastors.com
Rick Warren, best-selling author, speaker and pastor of Saddleback Church,
Lake Forest, California, provides excellent resources for pastors and church leaders at Pastors.com, "a global Internet community that serves and mentors those in ministry worldwide."
Read "Why Revival Waits in Britain" by Selwyn Hughes; "The Purpose-Driven Bullring"
and "A Fresh Call to the Family Altar."
Subscribe to Ministry ToolBox(TM), a free weekly newsletter with great tips and recommended resources.
Order material for new believers; find Bible studies, books, children's and youth material, music, recovery, sermons, small group studies, software and more.
Listen to a message by Pastor Warren as you browse - you may be here a long time!
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The ABC's of The Pastor's Role
There's bound to be more! A - Ambassador, advocate, administrator, activator * * * * *
B - Baptizer, building usage consultant, budget
juggler
C - Confidante, confronter, community builder,
counselor, coach, cheerleader
D - Discussion leader, divorce mediator, detail
freak
E - Encourager, emotional baggage handler,
evangelist, educator, evaluator
F - Funeral companion, father, friend
G - Grace giver, grounds inspector
H - Historian, homelitician, hospice worker,
hiker
I - Interpreter, issue classifier
J - Justice seeker, judicatory responder, janitor,
joker
K - Knowledge dispenser, kid
L - Latent gift discoverer, liturgist, leader
M - Mediator, missionary, moderator, musician
N - Nurturer, nurse, nudger
O - Organizer, opportunity spotter
P - Public speaker, problem solver, preacher,
patriot, proof-reader, pilgrim
Q - Questioner, quarterback
R - Reviewer, Roberts' Ruler
S - Spokesperson, spiritual director, shepherd,
social worker, steward, spouse
T - Teacher trainer
U - Unifier, utility player
V - Volunteer coordinator, vision caster, visitor
W - Wedding ceremony presider, writer
X - X-traordinary ingenuity with limited
resources (like figuring a way to use X)
Y - Youth advocate, Yule celebrator
Z - Zeal stoker, zoo keeper (so it seems, some
days)
To Be a Leader
by Dee Bernhardt
To be a leader is to be vulnerable - to meet the disapproving stares of others with the joy and certainty of God's infinite love;
To be a leader is to be imperfect - to enjoy the enriching process of a new challenge with the hope and confidence of the Master;
To be a leader is to be naive - to believe the very best of all people in the love and acceptance of our Savior;
To be a leader is to be trusting - to disregard dire projections of gloom for the joy and creativity of our Creator;
To be a leader is to be honest - to own our sinfulness with the sincerity and authenticity of the Spirit;
To be a leader is to be unique - to accept the wonderful gift of self, in the knowledge and understanding of community;
To be a leader is to be free - to welcome recurring waves of change with the awe and wonder of a child;
To be a leader is to be empowering - to share the exhilarating power of information in the establishment of inter-connectedness;
To be a leader is to be humble - to give the inestimable gift of flexibility with the grace and forgiveness of God;
To be a leader is to be whole - to know the startling reality that I am central, yet peripheral, in God's plan for the world;
To be a leader is to be weak - to understand that I can rest in the hollow of God's hand only in the total yielding and complete trusting of my child's heart.
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Prospective Elders/Pastors
The following is a confidential report on several candidates being considered.
Adam: Good man but problems with his wife. Also one reference told of how his wife and he enjoy walking nude in the woods.
Noah: Former pastorate of 120 years with not even one convert. Prone to unrealistic building projects.
Abraham: Though the references reported wife-swapping, the facts seem to show he never slept with another man's wife, but did offer to share his own wife with another man.
Joseph: A big thinker, but a braggart, believes in dream-interpreting, and has a prison record.
Moses: A modest and meek man, but poor communicator, even stuttering at times. Sometimes blows his stack and acts rashly. Some say he left an earlier church over a murder charge.
David: The most promising leader of all until we discovered the affair he had with his neighbor's wife.
Solomon: Great preacher but our parsonage would never hold all those wives.
Elijah: Prone to depression. Collapses under pressure.
Elisha: Reported to have lived with a single widow while at his former church.
Hosea: A tender and loving pastor but our people could never handle his wife's occupation.
Deborah: Strong leader and seems to be anointed, but she is female.
Jeremiah: Emotionally unstable, alarmist, negative, always lamenting things, reported to have taken a long trip to bury his underwear on the bank of a foreign river.
Isaiah: On the fringe? Claims to have seen angels in church. Has trouble with his language.
Jonah: Refused God's call into ministry until he was forced to obey by getting swallowed up by a great fish. He told us the fish later spit him out on the shore near here. We hung up.
Amos: Too backward and unpolished. With some theological training he might have promise, but has a hang-up against wealthy people--might fit in better in a poor congregation.
Melchizedek: Great credentials at current work place, but where does this guy come from? No information on his resume about former work records. Every line about parents was left blank and he refused to supply a birth date.
John: Says he is a Baptist, but definitely doesn't dress like one. Has slept in the outdoors for months on end, has a weird diet, and provokes denominational leaders.
God doesn't call the equipped, he equips the called.
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