What is a Pastor?

Robert Simon

Pastor's Fellowship • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago

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Introduction- Our best meetings have been:

Helping each other resolve issues/uncertainty

Studying large passages/books over a period of time

Times of encouragement/reflection

Often not “teaching one another”

What influences, outside of Scripture shape pastoral ministry?

e.g. business, political structure, leadership seminars

To you, what passages of Scripture shape pastoral ministry?

Jmac-

what to look for in a pastor - you need sanctifying shepherds

what is a pastor called to do?

1. To feed 1 Peter 5:1-4

1 Peter 5:1–4 ESV

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

2. To Guard Acts 20:28

Acts 20:28 ESV

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

3. Produce Christlikeness Eph 4:11-14

"You measure a man's ministry not by how many people he stuffed in the building, not by how many people he reaches, you measure the effectiveness of a man's minsitry by how Christ like his people are." Eph 4 11-14

Ephesians 4:11–14 ESV

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

4. Protection from the evil one John 17:12-15

"Do you know what the Lord Jesus Christ wants for His own sheep? Protection from the evil one" John 17:12-15

John 17:12–15 ESV

While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.

5. Tear down strongholds 2 Cor 10:3-5

Tear down fortresses - tear down ideas, take the Word of God and use it to smash every ungodly idea and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 10

2 Corinthians 10:3–5 ESV

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

6. Promote Holiness in the church Gal 4:19

Galatians 4:19 ESV

my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

Tasked with the holiness of the church. Gal 4:19 In pain until Christ is formed in the sheep.

Matt 18:6