David Mathis, Workers for Your Joy: The Call of Christ on Christian Leaders. Crossway, 2022. 352 pages.
We don’t pay attention to sound, hard-working tires until a nail pierces the rubber and we’re left stranded on the side of the road. In other words, we take good tires for granted until they become bad tires.
So it is with pastors! We take them for granted until we can’t. Our eyes are drawn to stories of their failures. However, we ought to be spending much more time devoted to the topic of pastoral faithfulness.
David Mathis has written a book designed to curb this problem. In Workers for Your Joy, he promotes faithfulness in the lives of the men called to shepherd the flock of God. His book is for church members—that they would know what to expect from their pastors—and for elders themselves—that they would better understand Christ’s expectations for them.
Mathis leans into Hebrews 13:17 for the title of his book, “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would
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