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In this second season of You’re Not Crazy, Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry gather in Ray’s study to discuss new topics related to gospel-centered pastoral leadership.
Ray Ortlund explains, “Christian leadership is leadership that is, itself, operating with, moving forward in, flavored by Christ himself.”
If you are a young pastor who might be tempted to give up and are wondering, What on earth have I signed up for? You’re not crazy.
Transcript
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Sam Allberry: I’ve got to be looking good. So Jesus can look good. And so my leadership has to look good because I’m the PR agent for Jesus’s leadership, which is tempting and fleshly. And and in some senses attractive other than the fact that it’s completely wrong.
Ray Ortlund: You know in my own heart, how many times I’ve thought, Well, He must increase, and I’ll increase too. We’ll do this together. I’ll share my platform with Jesus. But what we’re saying, Sam is that Christian leadership is not leadership that advances Christian orthodoxy. Christian leadership is leadership that is itself operating with moving forward in flavored by Christ himself. Any young pastor who sometimes is tempted to give up and is wondering, what on earth have I signed up for? You’re not crazy.
Is there enough evidence for us to believe the Gospels?
In an age of faith deconstruction and skepticism about the Bible’s authority, it’s common to hear claims that the Gospels are unreliable propaganda. And if the Gospels are shown to be historically unreliable, the whole foundation of Christianity begins to crumble.
But the Gospels are historically reliable. And the evidence for this is vast.
To learn about the evidence for the historical reliability of the four Gospels, click below to access a FREE eBook of Can We Trust the Gospels? written by New Testament scholar Peter J. Williams.