Thursday, July 30, 2009

What is pastoral productivity?

"I've never heard a pastor tell me he or she was too busy praying to do other things. I've only heard pastors say they were too busy doing things like counseling, organizing worship extravagances and managing church affairs to spend much time in prayer. Need we inquire further why the devil wants us busy..." David Hansen

A pastor needs to be spending his time in prayer, deep study of the Word and the culture, preaching sermons and leading in the other parts of worship. On top of that, he needs to spend a lot of his time in shepherding people through friendship and counseling/shepherding.

I have a hard time justifying why we should do much more than the above at all. And to the degree that pastors do much more than the above (give or take a little depending on gifting) the church suffers.

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