Each year I have attended or spoken at T4G, I have felt completely undeserving to even be in the room. This year, I stand here alone in a room, and I still don’t deserve to be here, particularly speaking to you on this text and this topic.
Mark, Lig, and Al asked me to preach from 1 Peter 5:1–4 with the title, “Shepherd the Flock of God”—and there are so many other pastors who should be preaching this sermon.
I think about my childhood pastor, Don Bouldin, who went to be with the Lord this last year after decades of faithful pastoral ministry. I think about Jim Shaddix, my mentor and the man who faithfully pastored a flock of 150 people Sunday after Sunday during my time in seminary. I think about Cory Varden, a bi-vocational pastor who tirelessly works while shepherding God’s people in a traditional Baptist church. I think about Matt Pearson, who moved with his wife to live in a trailer on the church property in a small town to love, lead, marry, and bury saints in ways no one but God would ever see. I think about the new initiative through Radical to partner with
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