The Pastor’s Authority and Accountability
Your Authority You must teach these things and encourage the believers to do them. You have the authority to correct them when necessary, so don’t let anyone disregard what you say. Titus 2:15 Leadership experts talk about two kinds of authority: positional authority...
The Pastor’s Job
Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come...
How to Become a Pastor
The only place the word “pastor” appears in the English Bible is in Ephesians 4:11, toward the end of a list of church leaders whose job is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. It translates a word that, everywhere else,...
Church Purpose 3: Invite Everyone Into the Family
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. – Matthew 28:19 Like everything else about God, God’s love is infinite. It overflowed the Trinity to Adam and Eve. It overflowed Israel to...
Church Purpose 2: Raise God’s Children
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. – Ephesians 5:1 Every Christian is a child of God, adopted into the family (John 1:12). As pastors and church leaders, the second part of our job is to help these children of God grow up...
A Family Home for God
2This is Chapter 2 of Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts. Previous chapters have also been published as blog posts here, and I plan to publish the rest one chapter per week. Scripture quotations are from the New Living Translation. The First Purpose of the Church: Be a...
GOD’S THREE-FOLD PURPOSE FOR THE CHURCH
God’s Three-fold Purpose for the Church [This is the second post in what will eventually be the entire text of Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts.] Most of this book consists of practical advice about how to do the day to day things involved in leading a local church....
Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts – Introduction
This is the introduction to my book, Pastoring: The Nuts and Bolts. God told me, "Freely you have received, freely give." Each chapter will be posted as a separate blog post. I pray it blesses you! Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not...
Welcome to the Doing Christianity Blog
Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves. – The Bible, James 1:22 I didn’t start out to be a pastor or a writer. I started out to be the engineer in charge of building the first colony on the moon....
If God Could Live Anywhere Where Would It Be?
“Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?” – The Bible, 1 Corinthians 3:16 If God could live anywhere where would it be? That sounds like a silly question. One of the perks of being God is that he can...
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