Showing posts with label Kent Hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kent Hughes. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

What Is "Success" in Pastoral Ministry?

Digging around in the DG archives, I listened to this stellar talk today from Kent Hughes, "Pastoral Success and the Cross of Christ." (Link fixed)

This is a talk Hughes gave at the 1989 Desiring God Pastors' Conference, follow his 1988 publication of Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome. It's a gripping reflection on his struggle with the "success syndrome," coming to understand pragmatism, and he and his wife's search for a biblical definition of ministry success.

Really: This ought to be required listening for every man in any kind of ministry, and for every Christian involved in a local church.

In a word: encouraging.