A Leader and his Congregation
A LEADER AND HIS CONGREGATION There is an expanding church in Pine Hill that I attend each week. This church is filled with many great spiritual people who are like family in which you could share your struggles of life with and then listen to them as they help you get through those struggles. Our pastor is a loving man too and tries to help people as much as he can. He is like a big teddy bear, because he is such a warm and comforting man. However, as the pastor of the church there are certain responsibilities and qualifications that he or she may need. For example, a good pastor should live his or her life according to God's laws and it should be noticeable to those in the congregation. A good pastor should also have a loving and forgiving heart, and be the strong leader of the church. My pastor has all of these things except the leadership skills. A leader is a person or thing that leads; directing, commanding, or guiding head, as of a group or activity. Based upon this definition I
I feel the love from others just pour over me each and every week that I go to church, but I propose that either one of two things need to take place to make the church complete. I have the elders of the church saying "the pastor is a man of God, and you can see it in his daily life. Now the children are the future for this church and if we can not find a leader, than the children will not be lead to become a doer or a follower of Christ and this church will slowly peter out until it becomes nothing as it was in 1990. However, do not take this the wrong way because it is an excellent church overall and I love going there and participating in many ways. Either the congregation needs to realize that we need a new pastor who can lead us not just teach us, or we need to tell him of his problems and then he, if he chooses to, can try to become a better leader so that maybe we could keep him and become disciples of him. " The worship team says "although he may lack leadership skills he is a man of God and we need a pastor like him. It will be just another church on the block that some may notice as they are driving or walking by. The congregation can not stay strong without a good leader. Due to the fact that many people like this pastor, it may be hard to get everyone to agree with my view point. Although this sounds all great, those who do not seek a new pastor may find out that later in their lives they will either have Jesus in them but find that they can not lead others to him, or they themselves may never get the chance to experience Jesus and all of the blessings from him. " In both of these cases each party says or hints at the fact that he lacks leadership skills, and so this means that it recognizable to others as well as me. He is a good man and a good leader. If the congregation pulls together and deals with this problem than I believe that those people of the church will benefit because we can get someone who is more of a leader then many people may just come to know Jesus Christ, and by knowing Jesus their lives may be touched in ways that most can not explain. astor does not come even close to matching that description. Even though I love my pastor he is more of a person who teaches those in the congregation, as a profession, then to lead those of the congregation as they need to be lead.
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