How Should I Serve My Church after I Stop Being Its Senior Pastor?
By Bob Johnson | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024The year 2024 marks my thirty-fifth year as the senior pastor of the same church. After I step away, how should I be involved in my church?
Support the Next Guy
By Doug Van Meter | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024A healthy transition to „the next guy“ depends in part on the „old guy.“ He can support the incoming pastor or be a stumbling block.
Preparing a Church for Pastoral Transition
By William Spink | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024What a man who pastored the same church for 39 years aimed for and learned as he transitioned.
Plan Your Transition
By Michael Indorf | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024A faithful pastorate should include a plan for how to end and to transition to the next pastor. Yet that plan should connect to and not conflict with the providence of God.
Why Is It Hard for Pastors to Let Go?
By Sandy Willson | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024It is vital that our primary identity is as a child of God, not the leader of a ministry.
How to Decide When It’s Time to Stay or Go
By Phil Newton | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Leaving a pastoral charge can be hard. Staying can be hard, too. And deciding to stay or go is more complicated the longer one serves.
Work Hard and Stay Hungry
By Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024If we’re not vigilant as years in the ministry pass, the greater the possibility that the monotony of our routines, the burdens of pastoring, or the busyness of ministry will become excuses for neglecting our primary task.
Every Week I Preach My Guts out and . . . Nothing Changes
By David King | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024We want God to set off fireworks, but he‘s more interested in farming.
Persevere in the Highs and Lows
By Clift Barnes | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Ministry in the middle years offers an opportunity to move forward while looking back at all that God has done.
Raise up Leaders
By John Folmar | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024It’s the Holy Spirit’s job to make overseers. However, he often uses pastors to this end.
Prepare for Unexpected Storms
By Josh Manley | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024The best time to prepare your people for suffering, persecution, or cultural marginalization is before they face them.
Unique Temptations for a New Pastor
By Brian Parks | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Becoming a senior pastor exposed me to many temptations that I did not expect. Some merely taunted and tempted me. Others I fell for.
Creating Healthy Membership Practices
By Jon Deedrick | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024As a new pastor, there’s a type of triage required of you. Not a triage of what’s urgent (like the triage unit at your local emergency room), but a triage of what’s wise.
Make the Main Thing the Main Thing on Sundays
By Bret Capranica | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024I was convinced that the table we set on Sunday would determine the whole ministry, and our main course had to be the Word of God.
Young Pastor, Care for the Older Members of Your Flock
By Dave Kiehn | 9Marks Journal: Seasons in a Pastor's Life | 06.10.2024Love senior saints from your heart. They’re a blessing, not a burden.
