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A Growing Church is a Dying Church « The Theological Wanderings of a Street Pastor.

For those of us involved in organized congregations, there is the one reality that we all face in a new congregation – what are you going to do to grow the church? Like Puff the Magic Pastor, whatever has gone wrong in a congregation, you are expected to make it all better. That is be like the old pastor that led in the golden years; be better than the jerk who just left; bring back the people who left/the new people who aren’t here.

Pastors know the drill. You get about four weeks of honeymoon and then comes the rope-a-dope as people take shots at you for not being good enough. Most don’t do it maliciously or realize that what they are doing is hurtful – unresolved grief over past junk comes out sooner or later and that is part of transitional pastoring. But it takes time and more often than not, your years of ministry are not really appreciated or have a chance of being considered golden until you are gone.

Most congregations don’t know or recognize this pattern this blog post brilliantly points out the reality that when a pastor leaves and new one arrives, a congregation dies. It has to in order to grow again. This is a must read for every pastor and anyone who is involved in a search for a pastor or a congregation welcoming a new pastor. Its that good

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