• Structure (20:36)

    Lots of things can conspire to make priests ‘lone rangers’, designed to sap the life out of our ministry and contribute to priestly burnout. It is also a model which is deeply unscriptural. In the Gospels we see how Jesus worked through others. He not only invested disproportionately in the Twelve, but even within them he paid special attention to Peter, James, and John. In the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-7) we see the Apostles entrusting to deacons the practical work of distributing food to those in need so that they could devote themselves “to prayer and to serving the Word”. Priests and pastors, need to raise up other leaders and learn to work through them.

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