We are facing a ministerial crisis, meaning we are at the beginning of a massive shortage of qualified pastors...
I've been noticing the signs of it for years. Some are easy to measure. Others are harder to pin down but just as real. Together they point to a hard road ahead for
Michael Fosterx.comWe are facing a ministerial crisis, meaning we are at the beginning of a massive shortage of qualified pastors... I've been noticing the signs of it for years. Some are easy to measure. Others are harder to pin down but just as real. Together they point to a hard road ahead for
The pastor who neglects personal holiness has forgotten who’s in charge. He believes he is an employee of his flock, so it is not holiness he is chiefly after but the appearance of success, of “having his act together.” When today’s pastors think of being an example to their flocks, they primarily think in terms of appearing well-off materially,
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
We must not be beholden to the lie that all is well in the world and the church. This is not a time for business as usual. Eternal destinies are at stake. The future of the church is at stake.
Paul M. Gould • Cultural Apologetics
Our ministry disease is not that the evangelical church is too deep, but that it is far too shallow. The symptoms of people and students leaving the church, or the lack of maturing disciples, or decreased attendance are symptoms that should tell us not that we are too deep but that we are too trivial.
J.T. English • Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
We have asked our pastors to be marketers, not ministers of the gospel. In the church we focus on keeping people, but if they want to grow, they have to go outside the church. We think about how to keep people rather than how to form people.
J.T. English • Deep Discipleship: How the Church Can Make Whole Disciples of Jesus
"These young people are committed to their Christian faith, but they feel despair and cynicism about the Church’s future. Almost none of them even call themselves 'evangelical' anymore, now that the label is confused with political categories. 'Sometimes I feel like I’m crazy,' one pastor said to me just days ago. 'Does no one see that the Church... See more
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