PETER'S LESSONS TO PASTORS (18 OF 20)
Scripture: 1 Peter 5:1-4
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Peter's Lessons to Pastors (18 of 20)
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 5:1-4
Being a pastor is not always sunshine and beautiful spring days. It has its ups and downs. It has to endure the good news and bad news cycle that so many other jobs have to endure as well.
- Good news: You had a special baptismal service at the river and baptized 10 people.
- Bad news: You lost three of them in the swift river current.
- Good news: The WMU voted to send you a get well card.
- Bad news: It passed 16 - 15
- Good news: The PLT accepted your job description the way you wrote it.
- Bad news: They formed a search team to find someone capable of filling it.
- Good news: Church attendance dramatically increased over the last month.
- Bad news: You were on sabbatical.
- Good news: Your deacons want to send you to the Holy Land
- Bad news: They're waiting until the next major war breaks out
See, pastors have their share of difficulties! As we move into chapter 5, the last chapter in our study through 1 Peter, we find that Pastors in the churches to whom Peter was writing were facing some extremely difficult challenges.
As the persecution intensified and spread it would be the pastor's responsibility to lead his people and help them navigate the turbulent waters of persecution.
- Leading is never easy. It is especially difficult in a time of crisis.
- Leading is not always about organization and structure. Leading is about people.
Peter takes time at the close of this letter, one that many scholars believe is his farewell letter because he would die a martyr's death a year to two years afterward, to address his fellow elders/pastors.
- In the very first verse of chapter 5, which we are about to read, that is how Peter refers to them, fellow elders.
- He was not speaking to them from the ivory tower of academia. He was not an armchair QB. He knew what it was to be in the trenches with the people. He knew what it was like to be a spiritual le ...
Series: 1 Peter
Robert Dawson
1 Peter 5:1-4
Being a pastor is not always sunshine and beautiful spring days. It has its ups and downs. It has to endure the good news and bad news cycle that so many other jobs have to endure as well.
- Good news: You had a special baptismal service at the river and baptized 10 people.
- Bad news: You lost three of them in the swift river current.
- Good news: The WMU voted to send you a get well card.
- Bad news: It passed 16 - 15
- Good news: The PLT accepted your job description the way you wrote it.
- Bad news: They formed a search team to find someone capable of filling it.
- Good news: Church attendance dramatically increased over the last month.
- Bad news: You were on sabbatical.
- Good news: Your deacons want to send you to the Holy Land
- Bad news: They're waiting until the next major war breaks out
See, pastors have their share of difficulties! As we move into chapter 5, the last chapter in our study through 1 Peter, we find that Pastors in the churches to whom Peter was writing were facing some extremely difficult challenges.
As the persecution intensified and spread it would be the pastor's responsibility to lead his people and help them navigate the turbulent waters of persecution.
- Leading is never easy. It is especially difficult in a time of crisis.
- Leading is not always about organization and structure. Leading is about people.
Peter takes time at the close of this letter, one that many scholars believe is his farewell letter because he would die a martyr's death a year to two years afterward, to address his fellow elders/pastors.
- In the very first verse of chapter 5, which we are about to read, that is how Peter refers to them, fellow elders.
- He was not speaking to them from the ivory tower of academia. He was not an armchair QB. He knew what it was to be in the trenches with the people. He knew what it was like to be a spiritual le ...
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