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Introduction
Today we are appreciating Pastor Chuck and Sister Sherry
Are we able to hold pastors accountable?
- YES
How are we supposed to judge pastors if they are doing right or not?
What are pastors for?
What is the purpose of their office?
Today I want to look t 1 Peter 5:1-4 and give a biblical portrait of pastoral ministry and tell you what it means for you.
You need to know what the bible says a pastor IS.
You need to know what a pastor is FOR.
TITLE: SHEPHERDS, THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE GLORY
A few observations about what we just read:
There are elders assigned to the church.
The church is organized.
Peter calls himself a fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ and a fellow partaker of glory.
The Elder is a shepherd who oversees.
Elder, Pastor, Bishop, etc. are used interchangeably.
The only two offices that are very clearly distinct is pastor and deacon.
Pastors teach and deacons serve.
Shepherd and sheep imagery is used.
The church is sheep, the pastor is a sheep who is a shepherd, and Christ is the chief shepherd.
1. Shepherds are given to help in suffering.
The context of our passage is not a pastoral letter, but a general church letter which for a brief moment focuses on Pastoral ministry.
Peter has been talking about suffering (4:12-19) and will pick that back up immediately after this instruction.
Why would he do that?
God has given pastors to the church for the betterment and aide of the church.
To lead in Crisis.
- Chuck leads well in a Crisis, you’ve seen that with the way he lead during the flood.
To lead in suffering.
- He has been there for you in moments of suffering.
To point to Christ.
God has given us to be with you in times of sorrow, joy, crisis, pain, hospitalizations, death.
Pastors comfort with the comfort that we have been given from God.
YOU NEED A PASTOR AND A CHURCH.
You cannot be part of the body of Christ and not BE apart of the BODY
You cannot say you love God and hate the church.
You cannot CHURCH by yourself
You cannot pastor yourself.
YOU NEED:
FELLOWSHIP, YOU NEED A PASTOR, YOU NEED ACCOUNTABILITY, YOU NEED CORPORATE WORSHIP, YOU NEED THE WORD PREACHED TO YOU.
2. Shepherds are to shepherd God’s flock.
Notice this is GOD’S flock, not Chucks flock.
(Not Matt’s or Chuck’s people, GOD’s People)
Notice the duties of the shepherd are to the flock among them.
The shepherd/pastor is not to neglect the flock in order to reach the lost.
(He can still reach the lost, but not to the determent of the sheep).
When the focus of the church becomes about the world, the pastor and the church have both lost their way.
Our services are not all about the lost.
(although they can be)
If Chuck preached a “salvation” message every Sunday, you would never grow in Christ.
Making my “joy complete”
The shepherd image comes from Jesus Christ himself.
We also find this shepherd imagery in the Psalms, such as Psalm 23, it also appears in the Prophets in Jeremiah 23, Ezekiel 34, and Isaiah 40:11.
Shepherds shepherding responsibilities: (These are all in relation to growth and health of the flock OR the discipleship of the people of God)
Feed the flock.
This is the primary responsibility of the pastor.
Care for the flock.
Pastors care for you by watching over your soul.
Equip the flock.
Protect the flock.
From yourself
From false teaching.
From Divisions
When a pastor neglects these roles to peruse other responsibilities that popular Christianity tells us we must, then I am not being a biblical pastor.
3. Shepherds are to oversee the flock.
Bad Shepherds
They do not feed the sheep.
(2)
They slaughter the sheep (3)
They do not strengthen (4)
They do not heal (4)
They do not bring the scattered back (4)
They do not seek out the lost (4)
But they use force and severity to dominate the sheep.
(4)
Bad pastors abuse their role and abuse the body of Christ
Are we able to hold pastors accountable?
- YES
This is the type of shepherd Peter is telling Pastors to NOT be.
These are the type of shepherds that leave people “church hurt.”
How are we supposed to judge pastors if they are doing right or not?
NOT under compulsion (v. 2)
Doing their duty out of a HAVE TO mentality
Under compulsion means that they are not called
Pastors who are operating in their office under compulsion have to be begged to do their duty.
What are pastors for?
What is the purpose of their office?
NOT for sordid gain (v. 2)
These are the pastors that take up second and third offerings because the first was not enough.
These are the pastors that shame people.
These are wolves in sheep clothing.
NOT lording over (v. 3)
The office of pastoral ministry is first a SERVANT.
Not ruling over with an iron fist.
but with love.
Not using the gift as a platform to bully others.
Not using the office of pastor as a way to take advantage of others (females).
What do we do if we have a bad pastor?
Shepherds ARE to oversee:
Voluntarily, according to the will of God
Purposely OR willingly
Not everyone is called to do this.
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