January 30, 2015
By Phil Maynard
Part 1 — Building a Team — (an 8-part blog series)
The classic view (perhaps romantic, somehow spiritually heroic) is of a lone pastor, tucked away in a study by candlelight, weighty bound commentaries stacked around him as he toils late at night awaiting inspiration by the Holy Spirit, who swoops in dramatically to deliver a message to be delivered from on high to an expectant congregation. This is the stuff of oil paintings.
A slightly more updated image would be of a pastor reviewing the lectionary, selecting some hymns and a Call to Worship and Prayer of Confession and a Benediction, jotting down notes on a yellow legal pad and dropping them off to the church secretary, so she can send them on to the Director of Music and print them out on the church bulletin.
Then there’s a hipper update, t