You Don't Have to Wear a Halo to Be a Holy Parson

<p> </p><p><em>The Seven Essentials of Successful Pastoral Ministry</em> is an invitation to look deep into the heart of the successful pastor who mounts the pulpit on the Lord’s Day to speak of the unsearchable riches of Christ.</p><p> </p><p>It affords the reader opportunity to contemplate more than the contents of a sermon or the mechanics of preaching but to carefully and prayerfully view the inner workings of the pastor’s soul. None would disagree with the suggestion that what a person is outruns outspeaks and outlasts what a person says.</p><p> </p><p>The Chief Shepherd said it clearly: “Out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man [or woman] brings good things out of the good stored up in him.” That good man can be the pastor.  That pastor must be that good man.</p>