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7 Ways To Encourage Your Pastor (& Staff) for Pastor Appreciation Day

Orginally published on Wednesday, October 04, 2006 at 6:40 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Seven Bibliical Ways God Wants You to Encourage Your Pastor is a twenty-eight page interactive workbook that is designed to help you (and others in your church) encourage your pastor. Great for small groups, leadership retreats, Sunday school, or personal study. Your pastor needs your encouragement, and God wants YOU to make a difference in your pastor's life. Here's how...

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Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 7:19 AM

Bernie, I’m tring to figure out what you are trying to say, but it came off a little snide. First off “It’s a good thing we have the Holy Spirit to empower us, huh? Otherwise, we’d think it is something that we do, when it is really God working through us, if we are doing His will.” Allow me to clarify… The Holy Spirit DOES indeed empower me, I think he empowers the whole staff I work with. And Yes… We do our jobs very well. We put the time, energy and effort to develop our gifts, both natural and spiritual. And God works through that… I see it all the time. (Is it possible for the HS to empower me, but I still do my job well by choice? I hope so!)

Trying to turn this into a “prosperity gospel” post is stretching (I think your personal agenda crept in again, brother man… This post has NOTHING to do with this). Luke 9:23 is a great incentive to lay down my life, pick up my cross, and do the work that God has given me with all my being, and with all my skill.

As a pastor of worship arts, I’m called upon to make music, among other things. Would you rather I practiced hard, prepared hard, and worked hard to make the music excellent? Or just “wing it” as so many do. Last I checked, my musical gift was not listed with the “spiritual gifts” in the Bible. So I feel compelled to develop it, and spur myself and my cohorts on to excellence. But even so… I feel the same way about my spiritual gifts, like the leadership gift, that God, in his goodness and wisdom, has chosen to give me. I develop them. I read, I attend conferences, I learn from my fellow leaders… Instead of relying on what’s built-in, I try to build myself up… for the cause of Christ.

Anyway, I appreciate all of you who are doing this same thing in the local church. Pastoring in the local church has proven for me to be harder than any secular job I ever worked (and I worked some tough ones). You can’t leave the job at work, the family and the job become confused, the lines crossed. Bless you all! I hope that your congregations go nuts appreciating you all this month! And every month.
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 2:49 PM

After reading the comments before this… let me just say the following about Pastor Appreciation Month:

1. I totally hear you on only appreciating pastors one month (or just one Sunday) a year. It’s like being a jerk to your mom all year long, but then giving her a real nice gift on Mother’s Day. It just seems fake and insincere… probably because it is. YES--the best way to appreciate your pastor is to do it all year long. I heard dat. (I’m not a pastor.)

2. The actual title of the resource above is Seven Biblical Ways God Wants You to Encourage Your Pastor, and carries the implication that there are at least seven biblical ways God wants us to encourage our pastor--ALL YEAR LONG! The actual resources has nothing to do with Pastor Appreciation Month per se. It’s about God using me and you to encouorage our pastors all year long… which IS biblical--but not practiced enough.

Just a thought.
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Saturday, October 07, 2006 at 4:50 PM

Cadre resources offer Biblical truths and personal challenges, simply formatted in a powerful way you’ll remember.
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Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 8:01 AM

As always Bill Allison and the team at Cadre busted out another excellent resource. This tool is ridiculously practical. Keep featuring their stuff.
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Sunday, October 08, 2006 at 8:34 AM

Once again the Bill Allison and the folks at Cadre have busted out another excellent resource. This tool is ridiculously practical. Keep featuring their stuff.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 3:23 PM

Pastor appreciation should take Place everyday. This does not mean that the October month should not be recognized for appreciating our Pastor. But the essence of it is to show how much one values the Gift God has given. And the way to value and honor our pastor first of all, is to recognize the person as a servant sent by God. Secondly to believe and receive their ministry so as to response with all your heart. Thirdly, by being available to serve in support of the Vision at all times. And fourthly, by giving our pastors financial and material gifts in proportion to how much we value and respect them for the great assignment they have amongst humankind. Additionally, we should praise our Pastors by speaking well of them and encouraging them in supporting God Vision in whatever positive way. Ephesians 6:1 says Children obey your parents in the Lord this is right. Our Pastors could be our parents in the Lord, therefore asum tatal of our appreciation should be a heart of Obedience to God.
Posted by Shane House

Monday, October 16, 2006 at 5:40 PM

Bill has help me see the next step in youth ministry. He has great resources! He has mentored me through some tuff times.

Associate Pastor / WhiteRose Fellowship Church
Posted by Bernie of FreeGoodNews.com

Monday, October 16, 2006 at 8:06 PM

Peter said:
“Luke 9:23 is a great incentive to lay down my life, pick up my cross, and do the work that God has given me with all my being, and with all my skill.”

I’m all for showing appreciation. I think it is great to show it to all people at all times. However, when a Christian seeks appreciation, I see a spiritual maturity issue. This is where Luke 9:23 comes into play. Denying oneself. If a preacher starts to doubt his ministry because he sees those in the congregation with fine things, the solution isn’t to get the preacher fine things. The solution is Luke 9:23. It’s an opportunity to more closely associate with Christ, Rom. 8:29.

Be careful of where the eyeballs go.. look at the rich church members, and there’s potential for jealousy; or look at one’s fellow ministers in Gospel for Asia and one will rejoice that they have food and clothes, unlike many of the ministers in Gospel for Asia. (My info about Gospel for Asia is from their free book, offered at their GFA.ORG website). I think a good antidote to Christian Materialism is giving to a ministry like Gospel for Asia, as a partner in their work and following/helping thier activities.

...Bernie

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