When his father-in-law [Jethro] saw all that Moses was doing for the people, he said, "What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge, while all these people stand around you from morning till evening?" Moses answered him, "Because the people come to me to seek God's will. Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me, and I decide between the parties and inform them of …showed first 75 words of 2322 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2322 total…the congregation as a whole. The building of a faithful community will not be accomplished by the affirmation of Christian values alone nor by the simple questioning of the spirit. It will also require a willingness to work patiently but persistently toward the development of a Christian community. Such a goal will be neither quickly nor easily accomplished. Are we as pastors ready to make a few healthy adjustments so we do not burn out?