Effective Pastoring: Giving Vision, Direction, and Care to Your Church (Biblia.com)

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"A great deal of confusion exists today as to what pastors are to be," Lawrence writes. "Are they chaplains, CEO's, preachers, managers, or counselors? Paul gave us the answer long ago: They are to be equippers, disciple-makers." Just as the great artist Michelangelo took a chipped and flawed piece of marble and transformed it into a masterful sculpture of David, so does a pastor with his flock....

We are to tell women how to dress and minister appropriately (2:7–15). • We are to develop and bring into office qualified elders, deacons, and women leaders (3:1–13). • We are to point out the realities of the times and to nourish the people on “the words of the faith and of the sound doctrine” (4:1–6, NASB). • We are to prescribe and teach apostolic truths (4:11). • We are to instruct through the example of our lives (4:12–16). • We are to establish local-church standards for helping widows, and

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