Pastor’s Job Description
In reading Lesslie Newbigin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, I came across the following quote that, in my opinion, succinctly summarizes the pastor’s job:
The task of ministry is to lead the congregation as a whole in a mission to the community as a whole, to claim its whole public life, as well as the personal lives of all its people, for God’s rule. It means equipping all members of the congregation to understand and fulfill their several roles in this mission through their faithfulness in their daily work. It means training and equipping them to be active followers of Jesus in his assault on the principalities and powers which he has disarmed on his cross. And it means sustaining them in bearing the cost of that warfare.
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