The third (and most annoying) way to end narcissistic shepherding is through the willingness to not shepherd. At least not that sheep at that time.
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The third (and most annoying) way to end narcissistic shepherding is through the willingness to not shepherd. At least not that sheep at that time.
Our respect for previous generations often creates a crisis when the moment comes for our generation to assume responsibility for the Lord’s work.
Anyone can encourage someone else. It’s encouraging them in God that distinguishes our worldly friendships from those in the body of Christ.
It is important to remember that our purpose is to discern God’s will for how to live, and choose that.
The moral of the story is to be wary of striking rocks as leaders of God’s people. We need to steer away from the temptation to make what we do about ourselves.
Acts 15 provides a witness to the 21st century church, revealing a way forward in a religious world that doesn’t notice how big the tent actually is.
I can’t help but wonder what it would look like to be someone who obeyed the first time the word of the Lord came to me.
The New Testament gives us a number of different metaphors for the church, but one of the most enduring pictures is that of family.
May we never lose sight of those who are right before us—the ones who need someone to see their pain, cry with them, and simply be with them.
The Bible portrays time as a series of connected loops, each one taking us back to the past, even as it moves us into the future.
In a time of terror, when darkness terrorized the nations, there was a monster—a literal, blood-sucking monster. The world needed a hero.
When I say I am a big brother, I’m not speaking only in relation to my little sister. Rather, I am a big brother in a Luke 15 kind of way.
If all Scripture is inspired and is profitable for our life as Christians, then perhaps we should not try and decide which section of Scripture is most important.
My prayer for all of us in ministry, is that we, just like John the Baptist, are only motivated by the desire to point to Jesus. That’s our job.
Ministry requires us to build some walls in order to survive. But one of the walls we must build is that of joy.
Sharing communion each week calls us back to the path we chose when we committed our lives to Jesus.
Seldom read, the book of Jude explores themes of grace and holiness, which are difficult for us to hold in the same hand.
After Jesus speaks to the people about loving their enemies and doing good to those who hate them, the first person we encounter is a centurion.
Happy believers sing. Those in trouble pray. And those who are sick call the elders to anoint them with oil and pray for them.
Many of Jesus’s most obvious teachings are ignored. His teaching on conflict in the church is straightforward, profound, bold, and … never really followed.
