A New Vision for Transforming Pastoral Leadership
**This blog, and perhaps every blog to follow, will be exploring a new vision for pastoral leadership and congregational care. A vision I am discovering or have been “stumbling, bumbling, and fumbling” my way into the past eight years of planting and serving a congregation committed to soul-care and spiritual formation. If you find it helpful, please let me know and freely share it with others.**
I serve as the pastor of Pillar Community Church in Vero Beach, Fl.
My family and I, with a few friends, planted Pillar in 2011.
Pillar’s vision is to be and become a place of soul-care and spiritual transformation.
Spiritual transformation, as a primary means of discipleship, has been gaining ground since Richard Foster published Celebration of Discipline, just over thirty years ago. Yet we find the term early and often in both the Scriptures.
I use the term to emphasize the conviction that it is possible for everyone to be transformed into the image of Christ. This conviction is the central message of the Gospel.
Therefore, as Ruth Barton notes, spiritual formation is also the central mission of the church. Continue reading “A New Vision for Transforming Pastoral Leadership”