Pastor's are very much ordinary human beings and subject to ill health as anyone can be. All pastors need the encouragement of knowing that what they teach us is doing us good. So be sure to let your pastor know that he is not labouring in vain. This is especially necessary if your pastor is struggling with his health. My pastor has M.E. and has limited energy to spare, yet every week he prepares us good teaching from the word. It would be so easy for him to give up and take a back seat, but no, he continues to search the scriptures and bring us our spiritual food.Hurray for faithful pastors.
Of course there may be practical things that you could do to help your pastor. Maybe he needs a holiday or you could invite him around for a meal. Do something practical to ease his burden. Don't sit in the pew like a damp cabbage, let him see that you are listening to what he has prepared. He needs lots of agape love too.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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