Do you feel like a round peg in a square pastoral hole? Do you feel like you have to conform to a model of ministry that doesn’t fit?
Pastor, You Don’t Have to Wear Saul’s Armor
It is Time to Find Your Own Fit
One Size Fits All?
The promotion “one size fits all” is rarely true.
It doesn’t work with gloves, shoes, shirts or pants. Even caps, wristwatches, belts, and other accessories usually need some kind of adjustment for a proper fit.
The same is true with pastoral ministry.
This is really important for young pastors to grasp, as there are pastoral “molds” into which they will be expected to conform. Sometimes, these molds are more culturally constructed than biblical; burdensome rather than liberating.
Like wearing clothes that don’t fit.
King David experienced this.
You know the story.
Saul was King of Israel and the nation was being threatened by a Philistine warrior named Goliath. Long story short, a shepherd boy, David, volunteers to take on the taunting giant. It is assumed that he will wear the traditional battle garb of armor, shield, and sword.
