Many church leaders feel a quiet, nagging tension that rarely gets named out loud. We want to obey the Great Commission. We want to reach the lost. And yet, most weeks are consumed by people already inside the church—members in crisis, believers who are drifting, wounded, or stuck. The result is an underlying sense of failure. Pastors don’t usually lack motivation; they lack a paradigm that makes sense of their actual work.
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Randall Merrill
Randall Merrill is a chaplain at the Family Law Center in Fort Worth, TX. He holds a PhD in Old Testament studies from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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