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Ordained ministry, says Will Willimon, is a gift of God to the church—but that doesn't mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging. Is the pastor primarily a preacher, a professional caregiver, an administrator? Given the call of all Christians to be ministers to the world,...

Because of the pervasive influence of the media star, parish pastors unconsciously take on the mannerisms and style of the television or Internet preacher, particularly in their leadership of public worship. The pastor as performer, as grinning, impersonal personality supersedes the roles of teacher, priest, and leader of the congregation. With the World Wide Web, every church can freely broadcast its services, every pastor can be a media star with a breadth of reach that would make Joel Osteen jealous.
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