Proclaimer Blog
Diagnostic questions for pastors
As part of his third day preach on 1 Peter at the EMA, Paul Tripp asked these searching questions.
- Have you lost sight of the fact that you deeply need all that you preach?
- Have you become less than open to the essential sanctifying ministry of the body of Christ?
- Have you come to expect of others the perfection you think you’ve achieved?
- Do you assess that you are qualified to have more control over your ministry than any pastor should ever have?
- Have you lost your sense of need for daily meditative communion with Christ?
- Are there places where you have come to take credit for successes that only grace can produce?
- Do you feel entitled to what you could never earn or could ever achieve on your own?
- Are you now less than watchful and protective when it comes to temptation and sin, than you should be?
- Do you tend to load more on your ministry shoulders than you can responsibly handle?