The Lion, the Witch, and the Church

What Pastors Do

In my mind, when a godly person hears troublesome news, she takes it to heart, considers it carefully in prayer, and emerges with a wise response.

I, on the other hand, throw things.

In the first year of my ministry as a solo pastor of a small church, someone called me to discuss his concerns about the way the church was doing certain things. When I hung…