This week I was able to watch the Barna Group’s 2024 The State of Pastors Summit. The first session began with asking some key questions. I would like to share those questions with the pastors who read this blog.
- What are the biggest struggles you face today?
- What are you most hopeful about today leading into the future of the church?
- How can we be praying for you as a pastor?
Would you be so kind to answer the questions using the following email address: danddmin@gmail.com? I will not disclose your name in a blog post or on social media.
My heart is to encourage pastors. I want to help you, cheer you on. That’s the purpose of this blog and one of the purposes of D & D Ministry. Having grown up in a pastor’s home and just ending my 40th year of being a senior pastor, I know the struggles, heartaches, disappointment and sorrows of ministry as well as the joys, victories, and fulfillment. I desire to be your friend, to encourage you to finish well.
Thank you for reading and taking your time to share your answers!!
Wherever you are in ministry today, soak your soul in Romans 8:18, 26-39.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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