ARTICLE: Congregations Gone Wild

I stumbled on a great article from the New York Times called "Congregations Gone Wild" about emerging expectations churches place on their pastors (and subsequently, I believe, their youth pastors).  It's super-relevant to those of us in YM.  Check out this excerpt:

"The pastoral vocation is to help people grow spiritually, resist their lowest impulses and adopt higher, more compassionate ways. But churchgoers increasingly want pastors to soothe and entertain them. It’s apparent in the theater-style seating and giant projection screens in churches and in mission trips that involve more sightseeing than listening to the local people."

Click right here to check out the whole article, and see if you, like me, resonate with the environment we so often find ourselves in in YM.