There is another old truth in sports: "its easier to fire the coach than to fire 60 players." If the players- i.e. the church council AND the congregation are not doing their work, it is difficult for the coach to change that. If you lose the game, the whole team is to blame.
Churches often leave the leadership - and the work - to the pastor. But the work of the coach/pastor is to teach and lead each one of the members to help spread the gospel. Sunday morning is practice. Monday to Saturday are the days that the game is on. If we do our job, it is not necessarily to bring them into our building at 10 am Sundays, but to comfort, embrace, be a friend, show people God's love, and act like, and be, a Christian
Aside from all the sports analogies, we often see that all the blame - and none of the credit - is placed with the pastor while the council/members stay back and let the pastor do all the work.
The church's "success" is not how many people come to the building on Sundays and become members. It is "how many people have been introduced to Christ in any way today?" by the people who do show up every Sunday.
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There is another old truth in sports: "its easier to fire the coach than to fire 60 players." If the players- i.e. the church council AND the congregation are not doing their work, it is difficult for the coach to change that. If you lose the game, the whole team is to blame.
Churches often leave the leadership - and the work - to the pastor. But the work of the coach/pastor is to teach and lead each one of the members to help spread the gospel. Sunday morning is practice. Monday to Saturday are the days that the game is on. If we do our job, it is not necessarily to bring them into our building at 10 am Sundays, but to comfort, embrace, be a friend, show people God's love, and act like, and be, a Christian
Aside from all the sports analogies, we often see that all the blame - and none of the credit - is placed with the pastor while the council/members stay back and let the pastor do all the work.
The church's "success" is not how many people come to the building on Sundays and become members. It is "how many people have been introduced to Christ in any way today?" by the people who do show up every Sunday.
Hang in there, pastors !