SPECIAL STUDIES IN PASTORAL MIN. Lect. 11
Pastor as Disciple-Maker • Sermon • Submitted
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A spiritual leader is the kind of person God-hungry people want to be like — Dr. Lynn Anderson
It is important to have experience and a variety of ministerial skills — but those skills, in themselves, do not draw the interest of “God-hungry” nor shape Christ-like lives
Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.
You cannot accurately compare spiritual leadership with any other type of leadership
Example: A doctor can have the most education and skills — and be a great doctor to others, while at the same time living a very unhealthy lifestyle with regard to diet, exercise, etc. — They can lead a sick person to better health while they themselves continue to become more and more unhealthy.
People searching for leaders today are not looking for people just to tell them all of the answers
They are urging leaders to “Share you life with me. Let me see it. Are you a person of integrity, and real character? Is your faith ‘working’ for you? Is the church you lead an authentic community?”
God-hungry people want to know the hearts of their shepherds — Anderson
How do we become the kind of shepherd that God-hungry people want to be like?
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Eph 3:1
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.
ASK GOD FOR A HEART THAT IS COMPELLED BY THE GLORY OF GOD
Henri Nouwen once observed that much ministry is marked by anger and greed…
Greed? Not necessarily for money — but maybe for attention or respect or for feelings of well-being and self-worth and fulfillment. Sometimes it’s greed to be doing something worthwhile in order to receive spiritual blessings. And yes, even greed to go to heaven! You’ve heard people say something like, “The most important things in the world is to go to heaven when I die.” — Anderson
It boils down, not to what you desire necessarily, but why you desire it?
It’s not healthy to go into ministry simply for self-fulfillment or to be appreciated or a lot of others reasons. Just like anything else we endeavor in this life, seek to be motivated by the desire to honor and glorify the Lord.
What about anger?
When people...respond poorly or they perform badly or won’t cooperate with us or appreciate us,we might be tempted to feel angry toward them. Why? Because they are not helping us feel good about ourselves. — Anderson
Many times the blame shifts inward toward our own feelings of inadequacy and we become very angry at ourselves. We think we don’t pray enough, read the bible enough, have enough discernment and wisdom.
When we don’t measure up to our own expectations, we can become angry at ourselves — it can become toxic. The natural next phase is to fall into the quicksand of guilt and self-loathing
Ask the Lord to search your heart — are you motivated by a humble desire to honor and glorify Him? If that is the case, He will help you deal with your sins and inadequacy along the way
The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever — Westminster Shorter Catechism