Why Many Pastors are Frustrated

By Donald W. Raub

A variety of Christian magazines arrive at my mailbox each month. They range from being barely Christian to bordering on the fanatical edge of Christianity, yet most of them contain more articles on how man should control the Church than on how the Church can understand the will of God.

The emphasis on human leadership has gone to extremes. There are leadership conferences, leadership courses, and books on leadership which seem to dominate the market. Of course, good leadership is important and necessary to any congregation, but maybe, if we submitted the role of leadership to Jesus, the true Head of the Church, our churches would begin to thrive. Isn’t it His Spirit that started the Church in the first place?