The Impact That the Hiring Process Can Have on a Pastor and What We Can Do to Improve It

Introduction

On July 26th, 2020, I was voted in unanimously by New Life Baptist Church, a small, rural Southern Baptist church as the next Senior Pastor of that church. The interim preacher who was filling in for that church at the time remarked that in the 40 years of doing ministry, he had never seen a pastor voted in unanimously. It was an exciting time in my life and having that unanimous vote felt like I had the wind at my back. Cut to three years later, the congregati

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A LEAP OF FAITH IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REVISITING KIERKEGAARD IN A POSTMODERN CONTEXT

      “It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”[1] The prolifically quotable Søren Kierkegaard had many such sayings that would not look out of place on a college dormitory motivational poster or in a pastor’s Sunday morning sermon. This quote succinctly distills down his philosophy and faith that not only covers the breadth of his beliefs but show

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