Comments on: More thoughts on leadership accountability http://rammoorejr.com/2009/10/more-thoughts-on-leadership-accountability/ In Christ's Footsteps Sun, 09 Oct 2011 21:07:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ray Waldo http://rammoorejr.com/2009/10/more-thoughts-on-leadership-accountability/#comment-17 Ray Waldo Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:45 +0000 http://rammoorejr.com/?p=61#comment-17 <p>During my two interruptions in pastoral ministry, I learned a lot about the type of "insulated leadership" that you describe. I found that the same things that I had said previously from the pulpit sounded quite different when sitting on the pew.</p> <p>I believe that when a pastor is able to give all of his time to the church (a very desirable situation that I endorse), he or she has a tendency to get isolated into what I call the "glory world." It is a place where we have time to study God's Word and pray and get in touch with God - every day. And, although that is possible (and desirable) for EVERY Christian, <strong>it is not the norm.</strong> </p> <p>The people we minister to each Sunday have spent the entire week fighting the devil - in the person of their supervisor and/or co-worker or someone that they have to deal with every day. When Sunday comes around, he/she is spiritually exhausted and the most spirituality that they feel they can muster is to just get up, get dressed and go to church. And maybe, the pastor can help them get through another week that is coming up in the morning!</p> <p>When we see these folks, we (having been in our "glory world") expect them to be just as spiritual as we are (let me interject here that we too sometimes are not as "spiritual" as we feel we must demonstrate to the congregation) and ready to jump right into worship with "both feet." And it just ain't gonna happen! (Can I get a witness here?)</p> I posted an article on the Chief Shepherd that expands these comments. If you would care to read that one, http://chiefshepherd.com/2009/10/glory-world/ During my two interruptions in pastoral ministry, I learned a lot about the type of “insulated leadership” that you describe. I found that the same things that I had said previously from the pulpit sounded quite different when sitting on the pew.

I believe that when a pastor is able to give all of his time to the church (a very desirable situation that I endorse), he or she has a tendency to get isolated into what I call the “glory world.” It is a place where we have time to study God’s Word and pray and get in touch with God – every day. And, although that is possible (and desirable) for EVERY Christian, it is not the norm.

The people we minister to each Sunday have spent the entire week fighting the devil – in the person of their supervisor and/or co-worker or someone that they have to deal with every day. When Sunday comes around, he/she is spiritually exhausted and the most spirituality that they feel they can muster is to just get up, get dressed and go to church. And maybe, the pastor can help them get through another week that is coming up in the morning!

When we see these folks, we (having been in our “glory world”) expect them to be just as spiritual as we are (let me interject here that we too sometimes are not as “spiritual” as we feel we must demonstrate to the congregation) and ready to jump right into worship with “both feet.” And it just ain’t gonna happen! (Can I get a witness here?)

I posted an article on the Chief Shepherd that expands these comments. If you would care to read that one,
http://chiefshepherd.com/2009/10/glory-world/

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