{"id":4128,"date":"2015-07-07T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2015\/07\/07\/false-stop\/"},"modified":"2015-07-07T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T13:34:00","slug":"false-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/false-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"False Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tI began my ministry in a beautiful little church made up of gracious and loving people in South Louisiana. After four happy years, I was asked to become pastor of the church I attended as a boy. The thought of making a difference in the church of my youth was a joy I had not anticipated. While I was content in the bayous, the desire to reinvest in the place that had first invested in me was too great. My wife and I packed our bags and headed to Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPerhaps I should have known better. The church had positions for three full-time staff, and all of them had recently resigned. Instead of being a catalyst for unity, I made the division worse. The trust they gave me in Louisiana was not so easily given in a church already cracking with division. It did not help that my theology and personality did not mix with a few key leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMy undoing began with a few &quot;concerned&quot; members meeting behind closed doors, followed by long deacons&#39; meetings that I was not invited to. Cracks turned to fault lines when the committee tasked to find a student pastor recommended a candidate who managed to get only 60 percent of the vote. People began to step away from positions, and those who supported me washed their hands of the church. I was a lame duck pastor. Within six months of moving home, I had resigned.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI thought about pursuing a career in banking. Or farming. Or anything. I thought it might be a great idea to work a steady job and just teach Sunday school. I thought I might not be cut out for pastoring after all. I wasn&#39;t even sure I wanted to be. In retrospect, I see that I lacked the ability to quickly process everything that had unraveled. I was emotionally stunned, in a state of spiritual shock. I was preparing to quietly walk away and chalk the entire thing up to a major life lesson.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSome of my closest friends told me they were starting a new church. I advised them to go and join an existing one. I knew that planting a church would be hard work, and I knew that many of them were carrying anger and sadness from the previous situation. They needed a pastor&#39;s help, and I did not feel up to the task.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne night, another dear friend stopped by my house, and he told me again that their intention was to start a church. I wished him well. He looked me in the eye and said, &quot;We called you to be our pastor. We may have left, but everyone still looks to you as the pastor. We want you to come with us. We called you, and I do not remember us telling you that you could quit being our pastor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI&#39;d like to say that his words stirred me into a sense of godly duty to care for the Lord&#39;s people. Instead, it set my heart toward a slow realization: this wasn&#39;t about an office, a title, a dream to be a great pastor, or what I thought pastoral duty ought to look like. These were my friends asking me to help them work through their sorrow, and they were asking me to help them establish a church.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat was years ago. I confess that some days I don&#39;t feel like being a pastor anymore. Most days I&#39;m not certain that I am doing a great job at it. But being a pastor is what the church has called me to be. It is my pleasure to serve them for as long as they will have me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-article-bio\">\n\tBrad Williams is pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church in Albertville, Alabama<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-article-copyright\">\n\tCopyright &copy; 2015 by the author or Christianity Today\/<em class=\"citation\">Leadership Journal<\/em>.\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/le\/help\/permissionsprivacy\/permissions.html#answer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"copyright\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for reprint information on <em class=\"citation\">Leadership Journal<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my ministry in a beautiful little church made up of gracious and loving people in South Louisiana. After four happy years, I was asked to become pastor of the church I attended as a boy. 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