Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Concept of Executive Pastors

Dennis McFadden at His Barking Dog talks about the concept of an "Executive Pastor" in an interesting article at his blog (link). I found particularly apt his comments that:
Generally you can determine the statistical probability of a church having an Executive Pastor based on whether the senior pastor has more books by Francis Turretin or George Barna in his personal library. Turretin is a dead giveaway that this is NOT a place where you will find an Executive Pastor.
How true that is! And one could swap in John Owen, Thomas Boston, or Thomas Manton as well.

-TurretinFan
to the Glory of God, at

1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSaturday, March 21, 2009 4:36:00 PM

    "....with Barna" you wonder if it is faith in his way or Faith in His Way?

    :)

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