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The Pastor's Job Performance Evaluation
2 stars|6 comments|May 18, 2009|139 reads
 
The RCA asks, each year, if the consistory has reviewed its own and the pastor's performance.  I find this amusing seeing as the Book of Church Order clearly states that Ministers of Word and Sacrament are amenable solely to the Classis, not the consistory!  Anyhoo ... such performances tend to wind up being a list of who is happy with the pastor versus who hates the pastor.

At my last church, the proof that it was time to end the relationship was that SOME (not all) people hated me.  Now, as pastors, we like to be liked and needed (let's be honest about that.)  But, perhaps people hating you and me isn't proof of our shortcomings, but of our success in being disciples of Jesus; if they hated the Master, they will hate the slave!



15:18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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mary ellen devries
 mary ellen devries
May 18, 2009
More people liked you than not ,but somehow those who didnt, seized power. And those who were undecided fell off the fence onto their side. I wonder if there is any regret after the fact on their part, not that they'd ever admit it. I tend to think all is not peachy keen and never will be again.
Linda
Linda
May 19, 2009
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Linda
Linda
May 19, 2009

That 's the truth, sad but true all may not be peachy keen.

Kathy
 Kathy
May 19, 2009
17:16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
17:18 As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.


 


 

Scripture: They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. John 17:16,18 (NIV)


 

Before Jesus was crucified, he prayed for his disciples. He prayed that as they lived in the world, they would not become part of the world. He wanted them to add the gifts he had given them to the world -- but he did not want them to become stained by the world. He wanted them to remain the person God made them to be. He wanted them to know his love and to share that love with others.

This prayer is for us too. Jesus said that just as his Father sent him into the world, he has sent us into the world. We must live in this world, but Jesus has called us to be separate.

Dear Jesus, help us, as we live in this world, to remain faithful to your call to be separate from the world.

Based on a sermon by Rev. Richard J. Fairchild
SERMONS & SERMON - LECTIONARY RESOURCES
Used by permission.

Kathy
 Kathy
May 19, 2009
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I was reading this message from my husband right after reading the Sermons4Kids message for this Sunday and I couldn't help but think how the two connected.  It is much harder to follow Jesus than the popularity club.  I spent 45 years of my life being different from the so called "normal". I am proud of not turning out being a follower of the popularity club rather than a follower of Jesus.   Yes, people may think I am different, peculiar, or strange...but I could have been on drugs, an alcoholic, in jail, etc... that is what I find with most of my childhood aquiantances. I am glad to be different.  I am glad to be a follower of Jesus! 
Linda
Linda
May 19, 2009

 I don't run with the herd (popularity club) and a times that can be difficult, but by
being different, we are nornal in the eyes of God.