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		<title>O Pastor, Where Art Thou?</title>
		<description>Discuss O Pastor, Where Art Thou?</description>
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			<title>Paul Baker says:</title>
			<link>http://ministrytodaymag.com/~ministry/index.php/ministry-outreach38/communication28/17784-o-pastor-where-art-thou#comment-17</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Brad is speaking out of need, is what I'm getting here. Public Relations is always top priorty with senior pastors. Proper PR will help you with a successful sermon delivery, and will also connect the senior (or only) pastor with his congregation. Pastors are always fighting the psychological war. They must schedule face time with their congregations. Yeah, it's tiring work. But the pastor is the primary connection between heaven and earth within the framework of that church, therefore the work is never complete. It is a work in progress. Brad is in need of that face time, just like anyone else. I call it: Refueling. The general has to come down into the trenches occationally and encourage the troops. They expect it, and the war against an evil empire demands it, if it is to be successful within the community. Churches, mega or otherwise, demand mega attention from the pastor and his staff.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Paul Baker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Dane Gressett says:</title>
			<link>http://ministrytodaymag.com/~ministry/index.php/ministry-outreach38/communication28/17784-o-pastor-where-art-thou#comment-13</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Honestly Brad, your article comes off kind of schizo. I don't think it's practical. You confess to being someone who recently started attending a church to hide in the crowd. Then you reveal that your pastoral model is the salesman/entertainer/Madison Ave marketer type. Then you chide the Sr. pastor for not being there for each person in the superstar church. How can he be your hero each week and still have time to drink coffee with 3,000 people individually? This is so unbiblical and unhealthy and so American. Sounds like you possibley burned out in a church plant experience. That's what the hero/rockstar/Madison ave marketer model will do for you. Perhaps you need to abandon the the mega church values, get out of Hollywood and get back to relationships yourself. Leave marketing to the world. Let's get back to biblical Christianity and get connected to Christ and the church and stop contributing to the pastor cult.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Dane Gressett</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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