A layperson’s guide to giving up your life

Karen Beilharz / 1st July 2010

What does it mean to do ministry but not be in ministry? How can you stay focused on ministry as a goal when it's not your full-time profession? Karen Beilharz tells her story, and how she came to answer some of these questions.

Have you ever felt like you're headed in a certain direction and then the door you're poised to walk through suddenly slams in your face? That's how I felt at the end of 2004. I had just completed a two-year part-time ministry apprenticeship with the Christian group ...

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The pastor and the evangelical priority list

Simon Flinders / 1st July 2010

God first, then wife, then children and then your church: that's how a pastor should structure his priorities, right? Simon Flinders explains why he disagrees.

I've often heard people say that the pastor's ‘first congregation’ should be his family. That's a catchy way of articulating the kind of priority list they think pastors ought to have: God first, then wife, then kids, then the congregation. Furthermore, it seems to me that this is a commonly accepted way that evangelicals have come to ...

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