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Counsel Your Flock: Fulfilling Your Role as a Teaching Shepherd is unavailable, but you can change that!

“One of the surest signs of the blessing of God upon His people is the gift of spiritual shepherds who faithfully care for His flock,” writes Paul Tautges. Sadly, pastors today have become business professionals who are no longer content to shepherd their flocks by teaching the Word of God and caring for their souls, but instead farm their people out to psychological counselors, who are incapable...

The authentic servant of God understands that he can be a God-pleaser or a man-pleaser, but not both. Unfaithfulness to God’s calling equals unfaithfulness to God. Therefore, he approaches every aspect of his calling responsibly. This requires him to discipline himself to remember that the success of his ministry will not be measured during his own lifetime. Rather, it will be at the Judgment Seat of Christ that “the quality of each man’s work” will become evident (1 Cor. 3:13). To remind myself
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