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How to Have Power in Your Life as a Pastor

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This quote is from DARRYL on dashhouse.com is originally from his now defunct blog “Dying Church”

To have power in your life as a pastor, it is supremely important that you make it a first order of business for the rest of your life not to do things to impress people or gain a reputation or protect your reputation. It is very clear from the Gospels that Jesus is calling us to deny some basic things in our personality–things that need to die. Jesus says in Matthew 16:24 to deny yourself; take up your cross and follow me. And I think that means dying to our fleshly love of impressing people in this way for glory for ourselves. (Jack Miller)

quoted at Buzzard Blog

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Advice to Would Be Pastors

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D.A. Carson and John D. Woodbridge wisely counsel those considering the pastorate:

“Read through Paul’s epistles rather rapidly in three or four sittings and observe that it was his relations with Christians that gave him the greatest pain. Should you end up in vocational ministry, your experience will not be any different.”