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<p class="text">I serve at a church alongside several very gifted preachers. Some of them lead our campuses. Others serve in various leadership roles on our staff. They are all good, even very good, and every time one of them preaches when I'm out of the pulpit, my congregation tells me, "They're going to take your job."</p>
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<p class="text">Truth is, one of them will. In fact, one of them should. One of my most important roles as pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church is preparing the future leaders of this church. I have, in fact, changed my mind on this. I used to think the best pastors were the best preachers.</p>
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<p class="text">Now, I'm convinced that the best pastors identify, invest in, and prepare the next generation of pastors. Preaching is like a cut flower --it exists in the moment and only in the moment -- without the grounding and fertilization of discipleship in the hearer's life.</p>
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<p class="text">Jesus modeled this for us. He poured His life into His disciples. More to the point, He focused a lot of His most intimate teaching in the lives of Peter, John, and James, who then became leaders in the early church. Paul poured his life into Timothy and Titus. Throughout the history of the church, the church has found its leaders are those young people who have been spending time with older leaders.</p>
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<p class="text">When I was a young pastor, I learned to pastor a church from older pastors. For some reason, these old guys liked me, and they would take me to lunch and coffee. During these moments, they would tell me how to visit a hospital, how to respond to a grieving family, how to get a sermon done in the middle of doing everything else required in a local church, and most importantly, how to keep my sanity in the midst of the craziness that exists in every local church.</p>
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<p class="text">Now, I am the ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/november/replaceable.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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