Devco Baptist Church
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The pillar and support of the truth

Choose Your Pastor

If your church needed a pastor and these two men were your options, which one would you choose?
 
Pastor #1
 
He knows how to inspire hope.
 
He is committed to people in need.
 
He counsels prisoners and juvenile delinquents.
 
He starts job placement centers.
 
He opens rest homes and homes for the retarded.
 
He has a health clinic.
 
He organizes vocational training centers.
 
He provides free legal aid.
 
He opens community centers.
 
He preaches about God.
 
He creates warm Christian community.
 
His membership quickly exceeded 1000.
 
Pastor #2
 
He is "too regimented" and attendance dropped to below twenty people.
 
He literally could not preach one Sunday night because he was so depressed.
 
He began to pray that some members would leave because they were so set on their own agendas.
 
He helped to answer his own prayers by suggesting that some members consider another church.
 
He saw the church grow from less than twenty to forty or forty-five.
 
He sometimes felt like he couldn't possibly face another Sunday.
 
He preaches about God.
 
Choose your pastor: