![]() ![]() The church staff is not another corporate ladder to climb. The calling of a pastor is not just another job. ![]() Do we not see the qualifications of an elder in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1? Are we to have the mentality to know nothing except Christ and Him crucified? Are we not charged in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word be ready in season and out of season reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching? My friends, this is not another job and I get sick when I see people treating this like it is job. This is clock-filled with not only practical after practical insight to undo the executive, CEO business mindset of the American Evangelical megachurch of the last 50 years but it is a higher call to change our mindset of what we are called to do. ![]() Imagine my perspective: Newly saved, called to be a pastor, has barely started on the path to becoming a pastor and by God's grace, I read this book. ![]() Why did I rate this so high? Because I believe the author accomplished what he sat out to do and did it in a fantastic way. ![]()
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