Pastor Mark Dever, who models this pastor/evangelist burden as well as any pastor alive, lays it out clearly: I generally know, when someone goes into the ministry because they like to work only with Christians and to do church things, that this person probably isn’t called. The person who is usually best is the person who is quite good in a non-Christian work environment but who is willing, for the sake of the kingdom, to be called back “behind the lines” as it were, to spend his life supplying those who are on the front lines of ministry. As a pastor, I am in a position that is both
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