Frederick Buechner once wrote, “There are all kinds of pressures on the preacher to be all kinds of other things and speak all kinds of other words.” God has called me (and I would argue all preachers) to be ‘Good News Specialist’—a phrase my grandfather (Billy Graham) taught me while in seminary. The job description of a preacher, in other words, is not to say many different things but to say the same thing over and over again in many different ways. We have one main message to declare: ‘Christ and Him crucified’ (1 Corinthians 2:2). Source; Pastor Tullian Tchividjian, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frederick Buechner once wrote, “There are all kinds of pressures on the preacher to be all kinds of other things and speak all kinds of other words.” God has called me (and I would argue all preachers) to be ‘Good News Specialist’—a phrase my grandfather (Billy Graham) taught me while in seminary. The job description … Continue reading “Pastor’s Job Description”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1726,1282,3063,17,14,3067,2663,3061,3072,3070,3062,4,228,1283,519,3071,1280,240,3069,3068,3064,3066,3065],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alone","tag-billy","tag-buechner","tag-christ","tag-church","tag-coral","tag-crucified","tag-description","tag-florida","tag-fort","tag-frederick","tag-god","tag-good","tag-graham","tag-job","tag-lauderdale","tag-news","tag-pastor","tag-presbyterian","tag-ridge","tag-specialist","tag-tchividjian","tag-tullian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godwhoisgod.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}