The Minister's Job

The pastor is to be a scholar and a preacher. He must preserve his time and energies for the main tasks of the ministry of the word and sacrament. Preaching requires imagination, reading, study and prayer and these are not possible when exhausted. To do his actual job, he will sometimes have to neglect being a social worker and therapist and budget manager and CEO and a million other things that some people want him to be. The Pastor must be to some extent in another zone since he must bring a word from elserwhere.


Great little You-Tube clip of Walter Bruggerman saying this - HT Revd Dr Michael McLenahan.