News Item: : Caught dozing during the sermon – the pastor!
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Posted by Pray4vn - Webmaster
Wednesday 18 July 2007 - 08:02:12
A dire shortage of pastors has lead to incredible workloads. Scores of rural churches still have no pastor, a city church may have one pastor – for over 2000 members. One such pastor preaches on average five times a week, on top of a full time administrative job and poor health. Is it any surprise, then, that the tendency is to write a topical sermon, whipping it up in a third of the time it takes to prepare one in a more expositional style? Despite their personal preferences and the needs of their congregations for solid expository Bible teaching, many pastors just don’t have the time! This, in turn, may hinder the church’s outreach to highly educated, deep thinkers, who find such sermons simplistic and repetitive.
Commit to the Lord those currently in Bible college, as well as those who have recently graduated, or returned from overseas theological education. May God also raise up more pastors, as well as lay people able to share the load in churches. Ask that all who teach would be both equipped and passionate to delve deeply into the riches of God’s Word, and to effectively communicate these riches to their congregations.
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