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15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors: How to Strengthen Your Inner Core and Ministry Impact is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church finds itself in a period of great diversification and multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the...

Christ must be the center of our pastorates. Ministry is from Him, through Him and to Him. Consequently, Christ must, in a very real manner, permeate all that is done for Him. It is only by saturating our souls in Christ through spiritual disciplines that we can live and minister from a well-formed center. Passion leaks. When I was in high school, I had a 1957 Ford flatbed truck that I used in my hay hauling business. I could stack 105 bales of hay on that