I’m always a little uncomfortable during a “Pastor Appreciation Dinner”.
Don’t get me wrong: it’s very nice, and I am grateful for all the kind and affirming things you say to my wife and me, in person or in cards and notes. Pastor Lee Eclov says that a congregation feeds it’s pastor, as well as the pastor feeding the congregation. That is absolutely true, and your expressions of affirmation have fed my spirit, and my wife’s. So we’re both grateful. I am grateful.
But I’m always a little uncomfortable, too. After you have commended me for various things, I can’t help but think of this Scripture: “So likewise ye, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.” (Luke 17:10 KJV)
And I sometimes wish I were really as good as some of you think I am.Read More