There is an expanding church in Pine Hill that I attend each week. This church
is filled with many great spiritual people who are like family in which you
could share your struggles of life with and then listen to them as they help you
get through those struggles. Our pastor is a loving man too and tries to help
people as much as he can. He is like a big teddy bear, because he is such a warm
and comforting man. However, as the pastor of the church there are certain
responsibilities and qualifications that he or she may need. For example, a good
pastor should live his or her life according to God’s laws and it should be
noticeable to those in the congregation. A good pastor should also have a loving
and forgiving heart, and be the strong leader of the church. My pastor has all
of these things except the leadership skills. A leader is a person or thing that
leads; directing, commanding, or guiding head, as of a group or activity. Based
upon this definition I would say that my pastor does not come even close to
matching that description. Even though I love my pastor he is more of a person
who teaches those in the congregation, as a profession, then to lead those of
the congregation as they need to be lead. The congregation can not stay strong
without a good leader. However, do not take this the wrong way because it is an
excellent church overall and I love going there and participating in many ways.
I feel the love from others just pour over me each and every week that I go to
church, but I propose that either one of two things need to take place to make
the church complete. Either the congregation needs to realize that we need a new
pastor who can lead us not just teach us, or we need to tell him of his problems
and then he, if he chooses to, can try to become a better leader so that maybe
we could keep him and become disciples of him. If the congregation pulls
together and deals with this problem than I believe that those people of the
church will benefit because we can get someone who is more of a leader then many
people may just come to know Jesus Christ, and by knowing Jesus their lives may
be touched in ways that most can not explain. Although this sounds all great,
those who do not seek a new pastor may find out that later in their lives they
will either have Jesus in them but find that they can not lead others to him, or
they themselves may never get the chance to experience Jesus and all of the
blessings from him. Due to the fact that many people like this pastor, it may be
hard to get everyone to agree with my view point. I have the elders of the
church saying “the pastor is a man of God, and you can see it in his daily
life. He is a good man and a good leader.” The worship team says “although
he may lack leadership skills he is a man of God and we need a pastor like
him.” In both of these cases each party says or hints at the fact that he
lacks leadership skills, and so this means that it recognizable to others as
well as me. Now the children are the future for this church and if we can not
find a leader, than the children will not be lead to become a doer or a follower
of Christ and this church will slowly peter out until it becomes nothing as it
was in 1990. It will be just another church on the block that some may notice as
they are driving or walking by.