The key to our souls is contemplation, the acquired habit of being alone with God to hear His voice. You probably will find it hard to start your day with God if the first thing you do is check your email or phone messages. You will hear all the other voices more readily than God’s. Friedman pointed out that a wired society means that everyone is always “in” and never “out.” That calls for artificially creating “out.”
The Key to Being Restored- “Christian Pastors”
Where have we all lost ourselves? We are constantly emerging in this stringent society whose existence is solely mortal. We have tangled ourselves in the world of commotion where even raised voice is never heard. Don’t you think we need Christian Pastors from where we can get inspired to move on the roads of excellence with the holy preaching’s of Christ.
Excellent Pastors, those who also imbibe their disciples through church leadership training have a personal yet very public inter-relationship with Lord Jesus, a connection that is neither private nor in isolation. These pastors express their love through fidelity to the church and they are only the means “When the Lord restored our fortunes” (Psalms 126:1)”
Contemplating The Reflection of Traits Discerned in a Virtuous Pastor:
• Integrity: Stephen L. Carter of the Yale Law School, in his book, Integrity, defines this characteristic as “discerning what is right and what is wrong; acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost; and saying openly that you are acting on your understanding of right and wrong”.
• Passion: A pastor having true leadership qualities truly believe in what they are doing; they have convictions. But leadership goes beyond mere convictions to the ability to inspire others with those convictions. //source: Leading Beyond The Walls By: Adam Hamilton
• Vision: They have a vision for what it means to be a people of faith in this time and this place and have the interpersonal skills to engage others in that vision, work through conflict, form community, and lead people in service.
• Mercy: True Pastors strives to know the mind and heart of parishioners and takes their joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, triumphs and defeats to heart and to prayer.
• Communicator: Effective pastors are nearly always effective communicators with excellent interpersonal communication skills, sometimes demonstrated by initiating conversations with parishioners rather than waiting for others to speak first. They demonstrate strong listening skills so that others feel heard by them.
• An Effective Mentor: An excellent pastor balances the interior life with an awareness of the culture, he seeks to understand, penetrate, and transform the culture with the Gospel and they honor the Catholic Tradition and makes it accessible to his people.
Contemplation is pondering the Word in our hearts, preaching it to our own souls, and personally applying it to our own lives and circumstances. Our spiritual Christian Pastors take us the way to lord. And certainly, this is how we bring our submission to Christ and surrender ourselves to him.
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