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What is the purpose of a pastor?

What is the purpose of a pastor?. The Question of Subversion.

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What is the purpose of a pastor?

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  1. What is the purpose of a pastor?

  2. The Question of Subversion Theological education is not about reasonableness and skill and management all of which may be necessary. Rather it is about power, insight, vision, courage and freedom of another kind, wrought precisely against the rules of this life. Walter Brueggemann

  3. The Current Reality…Unsustainability People Dollars Age Conclusion: We are currently living off of more and more money given by fewer and fewer people who are getting older and older.

  4. The Pulling at Our Pastors: Three Streams . #1 Satisfaction of Members #2 Leadership of Congregations #3 The Cure of Souls: Making Disciples

  5. #1 The Satisfaction of Members • Edwards Deming: Simple Systems Theory InputsThroughputsOutputs Resources Activities Nouns Verbs

  6. #1 The Satisfaction of Members • The Old Paradigm Satisfied Members More Money Growing Congregations

  7. The Shifting UM Paradigm The Old United Methodist Paradigm Outcome:satisfied members, more money, growing congregations The New United Methodist Paradigm Outcome:disciples (changed people who will change the world) Input: members, Clergy and congregations

  8. #3 – The Cure of Souls: Making Disciples The New Paradigm Disciples of Christ Who will Transform the World

  9. #3 – The Cure of Souls: Making Disciples The cure of souls represents the basic “method” of pastoral ministry. As an art and a science, church leadership is a distinctive craft with a particular method and sense of expertise. In order to lead people in Christ church leaders must administer God’s transforming grace in such ways that meets the different needs of people in a wide variety of circumstances. Leading God’s People, Christopher Beeley

  10. #3 – The Cure of Souls: The Need to be Theologically Wesleyan John Wesley: The Large Minutes (Q&A) What may we reasonably believe to be God’s design in raising up the People called Methodists? • To reform the nation and, in particular the Church, to spread scriptural holiness over the land.

  11. The UMC’s Long Journey from Membership to Discipleship The Preferred Future The Present Reality The Unsustain-able Future

  12. The Eschatological Gap Making Disciples Future Present Unsustainable

  13. The Need for Proximate Outcomes Making Disciples Proximate Outcomes

  14. The Proximate Outcomes Making Disciples #2 Leadership of Congregations • Vital Congregations • Congregational Growth • Missional Outreach • Vision • Metrics Proximate Outcomes

  15. Where do you feel the tension? . #1 Satisfaction of Members #2 Leadership of Congregations #3 The Cure of Souls: Making Disciples

  16. Where do you feel the tension? Highly Rewarded We must lean into these! #1 Satisfaction of Members #2 Leadership of Congregations #3 The Cure of Souls: Making Disciples

  17. Questions to Guide: • Who is our client? • What is our purpose, now? What does God call us to make different in the next 3 to 5 years? • What is my / our strategy to get to that difference?

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