I'm having problems with being a pastor. Not with self-identity or ministry. With the word as a 'designation'. Forgive me, but I suspect it is usually used in a way quite foreign to Scripture. I mean, 'senior pastor', 'associate pastor', assistant pastor ....... What's all that about?
i suspect it is, albeit unwittingly, about power. Influence. Who calls the shots. Which is strange, when Jesus is about renunciation of status and repudiation of self-assertion.
I like the old word. The word everyone used in Scotland, until the mid-20th century. Minister. Minister, as in servant. Minister, as in self-giving and attentive to the commands of the master and the needs of the people. Yes. I want to be, quite simply, a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Apostle, prophet, evanglist, pastor, teacher?
I'll let others decide on what extra name-tags might apply.
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- Married to Jennifer & serving together in full-time Church ministry since 1980. Committed to the Word of God in the Holy Scriptures. Influenced by Reformed, Orthodox, Catholic mystics, Anabaptists, Pietists, Puritans and Pentecostals and baptistic to the core! So thankful for Jesus, seeking to follow Him and inviting you to explore these pages to find out more about the exciting beauty of worshipping God through becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.