Increase Your Pastor’s Effectiveness [5] – Word For Today

‘Pastors…prepare God’s people for works of service.’ Ephesians 4:11-12

Here are two final principles for increasing your pastor’s effectiveness:
1) Don’t limit them by what happened in the past. The ‘ghost of pastors past’ can block what God wants your church to do now. Don’t say, ‘In the good old days when Pastor Smith was here we didn’t do it that way.’ That hinders your church’s growth and obstructs your pastor’s effectiveness. God is always on the move, and He requires us to stay in step with Him. Don’t expect your pastor to do things exactly like his predecessors. Appreciate what God did in the past but understand that His blessings - like His mercies - are ‘new every morning’! Yesterday’s manna won’t do for today; God will give your pastor fresh manna and fresh vision to take your church to new spiritual heights. The pastor’s job is to lead - yours is to follow.

2) Your pastor can’t do it all alone. ‘Pastors…prepare God’s people (that’s you!) for works of service.’ Paul writes: ‘Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us’ (Romans 12:4-6 NIV 1984 Edition). Who’s responsible for your church’s growth? You are! And if you don’t know where you fit, ask God and your pastor for direction. Until you know your place you’re an unemployed body-member. Get connected and help fulfil the vision God has given your pastor.

Num 11-12, Mark 5:21-43