Just Enough to Keep Going

“Some pastors, mightily endowed by God, are remarkable gifts to the church,” writes D.A. Carson. “They love their people, they handle Scripture well, they see many conversions, their ministries span generations, they understand their culture yet refuse to be domesticated by it, they are theologically robust and personally disciplined.”

We know those people. We admire them for it. We want to be like them.

But most of us aren’t like that, Carson writes:

Most of us … serve in more modest patches. Most...