To be a pastor requires being stewards of Scripture and souls, but also the teams and tasks that the community takes up. It is to know the people, the Scriptures and the organizational systems where the Word struggles to take root, grow in the souls and bear fruit in the lives of actual persons in actual towns and cities and cultures. Being a leader is the difference between Johnny Appleseed and an apple farmer. The farmer has to attend to both seeds and soil, and indeed even more than the soil. The farmer must be personally connected to the land, yes, but also to the fences, the barns, the
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