David Watson on Pastor-Teachers and Church Planting

The following is from David Watson’s blog Touchpoint.

One question I hear regularly from Pastor-Teachers is, “What is my/our role in starting new churches?”  This is the right question to which is often given a wrong answer, and to which there is not a single answer.

The Pastor-Teacher’s primary function is with the existing church or saved people.  He is called and gifted to shepherd, grow, exhort and minister to the church.  The training, gifting, and call of a Pastor-Teacher are very different from those of an Apostle, Prophet, and Evangelist.

What this means is that when a person who is called to be a Pastor-Teacher engages in church planting, the results are usually single generational, often focused on gathering sheep, and extremely frustrating in places where there are few or no existing Christians.  This is because the primary role of the Pastor-Teacher is with saved people, not lost people.  Note that I said Primary Role!

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