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Now I Know How To Pastor

Trying to determine what a pastor should do and deciding if I have been a good pastor has been difficult.

I often tell people this: "Ask around. They will tell you I am not a great pastor but a wonderful Bible teacher." Excusing myself from pastoral work and identifying myself as a Bible teacher has been a common declaration for me. But the fact still remains. I am called a pastor. I am expected to pastor a church. I still wonder what am I required and have I done it (well).

With this as a background, you can imagine how happy I was to come across two articles by Pastor Stephen Blandino, the Lead Pastor of 7 City Church near the downtown/cultural arts district of Fort Worth, Texas, on pastoring. He holds a Master's in Organizational Leadership and is the author of "GO! Starting a Personal Growth Revolution." He blogs regularly at www.stephenblandino.com on leadership, personal growth, church, and culture.

His two articles beautifully blends all the roles and responsibilities of a pastor into several questions and by asking them, I realized what was pastoring, what I was supposed to do as well as how far I failed . . .

Here are the questions:

Pastors NOTICE
1. Who’s New…that I should meet?
2. Who’s Missing…that I should call?
3. Who’s Hurting…that I should encourage?
4. Who’s Serving…that I should thank?

Pastors DEVELOP
5. Who’s Emerging…that I should believe in?
6. Who’s Rising…that I should equip?
7. Who’s Faithful…that I should promote?

 Got to keep asking these questions, answering them and being the answer to the answers. Ok, gotta go. Got some pastoring to do.

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