In this episode we discuss...

• our 5 points on how your church fits into the kingdom:
  1. Don’t be afraid to be an elder.
     • God has established an office for the leadership of the Church.
       • Ephesians 4:11-12; 1 Timothy 3; Titus 1
     • As under-shepherds, Christ EXPECTS us to lead in the manner He has ordained.  We are to teach and practice godly leadership in the church through eldership. 
  2. Don’t be afraid to accept things as they are on the way to where they should be.
     • Examples of things that can frustrate:
       • We have deacons, but I think we should have elders...
       • We’re singing a bunch of songs with weak or poor theology...
       • Our constitution really needs to be revised...
       • We’re supporting 50 missionaries at $50/month…
  3. Don’t be afraid to speak the truth in love.
     • Sometimes you have to say hard things from the pulpit, in a counseling session, in a public meeting, etc.
     • Proverbs 27:5-6
  4. Don’t be afraid of Alexander the Coppersmith
     • There are those who you don’t want to upset because their presence and influence can be destructive.  Do not fear saying what God’s Word says no matter how they will react. The Lord will work it out!
  5. Don’t be afraid of hard work or failure.
     • Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

Stuff Rural Pastors Can Use Review:

• How're you planning to read the Bible this year? Consider the M'Cheyne Bible Reading Plan.

Our Quote of the Day:

• "There is much to learn about leadership from the life of Jesus-but the vision of leadership that we find in His Word is not likely to earn Him top billing on the leadership shelf in your local bookstore. The road to His kingdom did not, after all, land Him in an exquisite palace or an oak-paneled boardroom. It took Him to a cross-a throne of splintered wood, where His only robes were the flayed ribbons of His own flesh and where the scepter extending from His hand was not a polished staff but a bloodstained spike, Everyone who trusts in Him has been called to join Him in this suffering and to be united with Him in this death. For leaders in particular, the cross means that there is no depth of dereliction or sorrow to which we can be called where our King has not already been. 'The way of the Christian leaders is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much,' Henri J.M. Nouwen has reminded us, 'but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.' That is the path of the one who leads as a follower of the God who goes before us." -   The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-Centered Followership

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