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Pastor Paul: Nurturing a Culture of Christoformity in the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Being a pastor is a complicated calling. Pastors are often pulled in multiple directions and must “become all things to all people” (1 Cor. 9:22). What does the New Testament say (or not say) about the pastoral calling? And what can we learn about it from the apostle Paul? According to popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight, pastoring must begin first and foremost with spiritual formation,...

three centuries Christian pastors were being called “priests”; therefore (4) this was a departure that jumped the rails of consistent apostolic teaching.57 Ironically, those most suspicious of the term priest are often the most insistent on their own mediating roles between God and the church—that is, in knowledge, in piety, in example, and in structural location. They may not use the terms priest and mediator, but such they are in identity and function. The criticism of pastors-as-priests belongs
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