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Part 2 – Leadership Review Pastor Renfro, as he is known by those who have had the pleasure to meet him, defines servant leadership as “one of the many models of ministry, each of which describes how a particular minister understands his/her role and approach to ministry as a vocation, and a way of life.” Dr. John Renfro is currently senior chaplain at Conway Medical Center in Conway, South Carolina. He grew up in simple, rural South Carolina in Spartanburg County, and he benefitted from a family

“Over the past twenty years significant interest and research has focused on the issue of clergy burnout and clergy health. A 1991 survey by the Fuller Institute of Church Growth reported that 50% of respondents had considered leaving their ministry vocation during the previous three months. In a 2008 survey of 358 parish-based clergy, 13% reported themselves as burned out, 23% as depressed and 45% rated themselves as high or moderate in emotional exhaustion.” (Jackson-Jordan 2013 Online) Clergy

In his book Lectures to My Students, Charles Spurgeon lays out a comprehensive ministerial guide for students and pastors. There is an enormous amount of energy directed towards the minister’s lifestyle, spirituality, and sincerity. Spurgeon makes the case that ministry must be handled with precision, attentiveness, and truth. He further shares, “What a dreadful thing it will be for me if I should be ignorant of the power of the truth which I am preparing to proclaim” (2010, Chap. I). The preacher

There can be a misunderstanding on what the role of a pastor should be. The congregation member that jokes that a pastor works only one day of the week is making light of the true role of a pastor. When tragedy hits the families of the church, it is the pastor that is called up to comfort and bring biblical wisdom into a tragic and unfortunate situation. Again, I Peter 5 lays out the ministry of a pastor is to shepherd his flock. If a pastor is leading his congregation like a shepherd, then it

pastoral preacher must not only be attuned to his congregation, but he must be attuned to the world as well. He must know how to make the Bible relevant. Studying society and the culture can do this. Caution should be taken in the endeavor so that he does not become enticed by the world’s lies. 2. The key components of effective pastoral preaching have been derived from my person study of the content, concepts, and resources in presented in this course. The first component would be a sense of

I had the privilege of interviewing Jason Hanson, a pastor from Sovereign Grace Church. Exposure of counseling was early for Jason, watching his Dad oversee the high school ministry. Jason has counseled various couples, parents and teens in and out of Sovereign Grace. He sees his job as an opportunity to be invited into peoples lives, to serve them and see where they are in life. Faith in the Lord is the core influence that Jason uses in his counseling and his clients are aware of this at the beginning

The thing is one should be able to trust the pastor one would not expect the pastor to be a sexually active person that has a interest with child porn in their minds. “He had moved away from the area, and when he came back to the area, he said that he wanted to come to our church. He said he had a heart for the youth, and his resume was awesome,” she said. Sylvia Tryon, Some people want to do good, but somehow it turns into something really bad that one would not expect. Saying that one want to

In this book, John Piper juxtaposes having the mentality of a shepherd over the mentality of a professional. He covers a variety of topics that he seeks to articulate the most God-exalting view. He states, “We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry. The mentality of the professional is not the mentality of the prophet. It is not the mentality of the slave of Christ. Professionalism has nothing to do with the essence and heart of the Christian ministry. The more

skillful preachers, pastors and teachers. How can you be original when it appears all of the apparent techniques have been discovered? Speaking of technique, how should a student preacher apply everything they ever learned from a Bible seminary? These are questions for many students of the Bible. How do I represent God and still reach the lost souls of our generation and at the same time feed the Believers of Christ so they won’t starve

Our church has a teaching/worship model for teenagers that are different from most ministries. Everyone starts worship corporately, which includes praise and worship, invocation prayer, songs, announcements and greeting. We also recite a Bible creed, after which teenagers are released to continue their worship separately. The teen worship includes Bible study. One of the purposes for using this model is to allow teenagers the freedom to be taught in a manner that is more conducive to fostering