Pastoral Ministry Essay -- Religion, Christ, Church, God

Christ is the leader of the Church, capital of Minnesota in Ephesians 122 verbalise God placed everything infra his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the Church however, God entrusted the assurance to lead to his servant whom he set them aside to lead the residential ara. government minister as a public Leadership is to lead community. A individual who is called by God to lead public has a responsibility to be in the community, with the community and for the community. One of best questions raised in the differentiate during public leadership discussion was How we can be a community diplomatic minister rather than just a church rector? This in reality a kind of question we are to consider as pastor especially as rural faithful pastor. In most cases when pastor are called to ministry, especially the graduation call, what is in pastors header is non the community in general but only the congregation he/she is going to serve. As a pastor we are not just called to deal with the Spiritual life of people in the Church, we are also responsible to take part in the leadership of socio-economic, political, cultural and others aspect of the whole community we are called to. God calls pastor through and through congregation, whenever God calls it is not because who we are but because whom God is. Jesus does not says to the eleven disciples, all power has been give to you, therefore go what is said was all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me (Matthew 2818). All the power and the authority belong to God, however, God entrusted his authority to us to go and be a servant. Who is going to be a obedient leader? Leading does not demand sodding(a)ness the only perfect leader of his people is God. Paul did not pressed on the perfectness of vernal Timothy we he gave for public l... ...ng out and proclaims the gospel for unchurhed, and pastors should focus on internal evangelicalism. It is hard to preach other be fore we got evangelized ourselves. Most Churches tries to evangelize other by giving away their resources, being a cracking steward is good to promote the work of evangelism however, pastor should focus first on evangelizing the members of their congregation. Today majority of Church goers do not transform their bible. When God ordered Moses to build the tabernacle, its construction started from the inner most of the tabernacle (Exodus 2510), the last work to be done to finish the Tabernacle was the outer parts ( Exodus 4033). Here I motive to indicate that the Pastor should start the work evangelism from the pew to the community. To produce good evangelist the pastor should work on making his congregation biblical well versed.