Optional Session
Workshop 2 - C. J. Mahaney
Originally scheduled to be on Trinitarian Pastoral Ministry, he changed his topic to Pastoral Charge
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1 Peter 5:1-4
Pastor of a local church should be familiar with church, pastoral history, as if it were their own history.
Suffering informs pastoral ministry.
One must be a Shepard, it must be the primary metaphor, not the managerial one passed on recently.
Journey to Shepard,
Jacob identifies God as Shepard
David sings Lord is my Shepard
God calls David Shepard
God promises a Shepard in Jeremiah
Ezekiel indites people for neglecting the flock
God promises a Shepard
Shepard arrives and gives life for flock
Restores one who denied him, and commissions him with "feed my flock"
Peter exhorts us with reminder to play a part in the Shepard of God's people.
Most elevated task God could assign man.
Exercise oversight, sacrifice, serve, love, be amazed . . . exceeded only by experience of conversion.
Be humbled, filled with hope.
Motives and attitudes matter, and seriously affect the outcome of Shepard
Not under compulsion, but willingly,
- Weekly sermon writing
- Weekly preaching
- Lack of visible results
- Crisis of faith
Must create a culture of joy.
Not domineering, but as examples
- Exercise oversight v. Lording over flock, pastor is not stand-in for Lord
- Humility!!!
- Shepard must be aware of being a needy and loved sheep.
- Turn heart to coming of Christ, we should work back from that day to the present.
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