Being a Pastor is a complicated calling.
McKnight explores seven dimensions that illustrate this concept--friendship, siblings, generosity, storytelling, witness, subverting the world, and wisdom--as he calls pastors to be conformed to Christ and to nurture a culture of Christoformity in their churches..
The pastor\'s central calling, then, is to mediate Christ in everything.
Grounding pastoral ministry in the pastoral praxis of the apostle Paul, McKnight shows that nurturing Christoformity was at the heart of the Pauline mission.
The biblical vision for that culture is Christoformity, or Christlikeness.
As leaders, pastors both create and nurture culture in a church.
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, which plays a vital role in the life and ministry of the pastor. 9:22).
Pastors are often pulled in multiple directions and must become all things to all people (1 Cor.
Being a Pastor is a complicated calling
