growth methodologies, counseling leadership training, and other areas will be important, but the growing trend is for the pastor’s time to be spent like the apostles of Acts 6—in prayer and ministry of the Word. The results of this study confirmed those earlier observations. Pastors can easily fill an eighty-hour week battling the tyranny of the urgent. But many pastors of these evangelistic churches have shifted their priorities to make certain they spend adequate time in study of the Word and in
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