Pastor John speak to pastors and speak about pastoring in answering why you choose to

tweet and blog in the midst of destructive natural disasters like tornadoes.

What's the goal in doing this?

The goal, Tony, of pastoral ministry is face in our people and glory for our

God and all of that great face, strong face, indomitable face, glorifying God,

all of that spilling over for the same in the world. We want more of that to

happen in the world. We don't want our people to stumble into unbelief or into

doubt when they are clobbered by some grief, loss, pain, suffering and we

don't want God to be dishonored. So two huge goals for pastoral ministry and I

think for all of life is we want to help them be strong in faith and we want to

help them give glory to God and pain and suffering and calamities and

cancer and the loss of loved ones are huge tests of face and pastors aim to

help their people be strong in those seasons and we do it before them and

during them and after them and I think it's crucial that we focus on all three

of those before the calamity comes we're preparing them with with true

views of God and his sovereign goodness and his deep love for them and their

confidence in him and we do it during the events by being there. This is really

crucial that as pastors we be there for our people. Perhaps even in silence like

Job's friends in the first golden seven days of their ministry when they were

not trying to persuade Job of bad theology like God only blesses the good and

he punishes the bad of bad theology so when they were quiet they were more

helpful than when they spoke and I've sat for long stretches of time saying

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