Soul care in the small church
by Lewis Parks
They do not come to worship hoping to be swept up into the gravity of my agenda, these ninety, sixty, or thirty souls. They are not there to hear me wax eloquent about the things that consume me as a called and equipped pastor: the continued disestablishment of the church, the mainline decline, the bishop’s appeal for disaster relief, the needed repairs on the roof, the annual meeting, the loss of biblical literacy, the larger social questions that won’t go away, the connectional church’s debate on sexuality, a postcolonial reading of the Bible, the increase of our impact for good in the community, and so on. Read here
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