This July, I will begin my 20th year of full-time ministry.
Over that time, I’ve learned many, many lessons. Some of them with great joy. Others with great pain.
So I share one with you today. This one is especially for pastors and church leaders. It’s this.
Any time someone new shows up in your church, showers you with flattery as a pastor/teacher and offers comments about how their previous minister let them down or couldn’t preach or made them mad, it means one thing:
You’re next on the list.
So don’t be puffed up. Be careful.
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May God continue to bless your ministry and give you the fire for 20 more years in his service.
Okay, consider yourself showered with flattery. I won’t mention my previous pastors!
I love my previous minister. He’s an amazing man. He would do really weird things, though, like expect me to eat with him every Easter and spend Christmas morning with him. Then again, he’s also my dad, so I guess that makes sense.
Being a PK, I’ve seen both sides… people who “worship” their minister in a sense, and people who are too quick to tear their minister down, before remembering they’re human and imperfect, too. I think us PK’s are extremely blessed uniquely that we are able to see both sides of the story… a minister as a leader and also as a human.