If you really want to dig into what the position entails, Dan Garland wrote a great article several years back for Deacon Magazine. I want to follow that up by writing a little about what a transitional pastor is (and isn’t). See also John MacArthur’s Notes on the Biblical Role of an Elderīut, the focus of SimmsMinistry website site is not just about the pastoral role, as much as it is about the role of an INTERIM pastor.The other day, I posted an announcement about serving at Bloomingdale Friends church for the remainder of 2017 as their Transitional Pastor.O ur Ministry Perspectives ( see table of contents: “Leadership Style, Developing a team….” ).Our Philosophy of ministry (Biblical role of the pastor: scroll down to Part III ).Pastors/elders are to be a gifted, trained, and skilled believers whom God has called to lead a group of fellow priests or ministers, not a minister who leads a group of lay spectators. The people of the church are ministers who are to be trained for the kind of growth in the Word that results in changed lives and ministry. Above all, as Ephesians 4:11-17 makes clear, they are equippers whose agenda (priorities, allotment of time, and duties) are to be ordered by the Word of God, not by the agendas of people following their cultural expectations set by the traditions of men. Though each of these terms may describe the different aspects of leadership, they seem to be used interchangeably to designate the same office. 5:12), and “pastor/teachers” ( poimenas- didaskalous, Eph.
The leaders of the church are referred to as “elders” ( presbuteroi, Acts 20:17 1 Tim. Only when he serves Christ can the best interests of people be served. But, if he serves the Lord, and follows the priorities laid out in scripture, he serves their best interest. When the pastor focuses on finding out what people want (their likes/dislikes, their pet projects, etc.) and bases his duties on their whims and varied expectations, he serves their vested interest and expectations.
4:11-17).īut Christ and the priorities of Scripture must set the agenda for a pastor’s ministry Many people perceive the pastor as a speaker, administrator of the whims of the people, an employee who belongs to this church, a CEO hired by a group of stockholders rather than a teacher, shepherd, counselor, equipper of other believers who are responsible to do ministry (Eph. The pastor is traditionally considered a church’s head “everything.” He’s the spiritual and administrative head, the sole minister, the legal corporation president - and basically the know-it-all, do-it-all, “chief cook and bottle washer.” In many small churches, the pastor will conduct all the services, lead the singing, do all the preaching, handle all the visiting, counseling and spiritual matters, while he may also have to take care of the office work, bookkeeping, or even the janitorial, maintenance or building repair. In the New Testament, the Greek noun poimein and verb poimaino are usually translated shepherd or to shepherd.Ĭommon ideas about what a pastor is and does… The term “pastor” is also related to the role of elder within the New Testament. The word itself is derived from the Latin word pastor which means “shepherd”. It can also be used in reference to priests and bishops within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches.
In some countries the term is used in relation to Protestant churches. The word “pastor” usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation.
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