What do you expect from your pastor?
“The modern preacher has a job description that sounds like Superman. He’s expected to make house calls like an old country doctor, shake hands like a campaigning politician, prepare lessons like a professor, and see as many people as a psychologist. He has to be as skilled an executive as the president of a business and as shrewd a financier as a banker… As a result, those entering the ministry are confused about who they are, and what they’re supposed to accomplish, and how they’re to live up to the impossible expectation.” —Haddon Robinson
Expecations Throughout History:
1. The Early Church expected the pastor to be the
2. The Middle Ages expected the pastor to be the
3. The Reformation expected the pastor to be the
4. The Modern Age expects the pastor to be the
What does God expect from your pastor?
1 I exhort the elders among you as a fellow elder and witness to the sufferings of Christ, as well as one who shares in the glory about to be revealed: 2 Shepherd God’s flock among you, not overseeing out of compulsion but willingly, as God would have you; not out of greed for money but eagerly; 3 not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. —1 Peter 5:1-4 CSB
1 Peter 5:2b-3
As an elder, the pastor
the church by setting the example with his own
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“If your pastor is a man of God, follow him. If he’s not, fire him.” —Adrian Rogers
Hebrews 13:7
1 Peter 5:2-4
As a shepherd, the pastor
the flock with the
of God’s Word.
Acts 20:29-31
• Orthodoxy – correct
• Orthopraxy – correct
1 Peter 5:2
As an overseer, the pastor
the congregation with his
of the vision.
Our Vision: Formed by Jesus, Together, For Others
2 Vision Killers:
1. Being
2. Being
“If you’re not close to people who are far from God, you’re not as close to God as you think you are. Because God’s heart is always with people who are far from him.” —Pastor Vince Antonucci
NEXT STEPS
1) Is God calling you into pastoral ministry?
2) Is God calling you to grant your pastor the privilege to guide, guard, and grow your soul into the Way of Jesus?