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Well, I never intended to take the summer off of blogging… but here it is the end of August. Sheeesh, were did it go… but here we go, back at it.

Now, Chris and I always get a lot of weird looks and plenty of questions when we tell people that we co-pastor a church together. People just automatically assume that someone has to be ‘in charge’. I was beginning to think that we were all alone in this endeavor. That is until I was recently given an article out of a rag called The Banner, that describes the joys and advantages of a team of co-pastors. The authors Peter and Mike do good job of describing the sweetness of life as co-pastors but also break this mysterious phenomenon down into seven principles (did it have to be seven) for team building.

They seem to share leadership and authority in extremely similar ways as Chris and I, so I though it might be interesting for folks to give it a read. I think it will give you a little insight into what Chris and I are up to with this crazy plan of co-pastoring this little community called the branch. Here’s a little quote I particularly like:

Why do we avoid the trend toward titles like “Senior Pastor” and “Lead Pastor”? Mainly because we do not think that fits the spirit of servant leadership described in the New Testament. Nor do we think it fits with the decidedly nonhierarchical tradition of our Reformed church polity.

So we’re actually adhering more closely to ‘reformed church polity’… huh, who knew?

click here to read the whole article