One thing that I have noticed is there are pastors who pastor churches, and there are pastors who pastor other pastors. I noticed this at the Prescott conference. Most of the ministry during conference is aimed at pastors. Rarely is anything preached that would help ordinary church goers. Non pastors who attend conference are there looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend or a spouse.
In the world of coaching college football I heard a coach say that his job is not a coach, but a CEO of the organization. That he is more a coach of coaches than a coach of players. This made me think of pastor Mitchell. At some point early in our Fellowship, before it was a fellowship, pastor Mitchell became a pastor of pastors as well as a pastor of the Prescott church. It changed the Prescott church.
As a church member this puts us in a particular position. We love our pastor. But we are not the central focus of his attention anymore. We support the vision of church planting even though we find out that planting churches takes our pastor away from us too often. We are expected to be faithful no matter if our pastor is there or not. Sometimes our pastor would not get a gold star for attendance since he is rarely home.
When the church is a family everyone loves one another. When our church becomes a conference center it becomes more of an organization than a family. We have a job to do. We no longer have a church building, we worship in our conference center. It is not longer a sanctuary, it is an auditorium.
Our church is entering a time where we all need to grow up and mature and stop acting like children.
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