As a lover of history, walking through a museum with rare artifacts thrills me. Museums collect the best artifacts by depending on experts who know their field and seek to tell a trustworthy story.<\/p>\n
What does a museum have to do with your church bookstall or library? I am glad you asked.<\/p>\n
Both should collect instructive and enjoyable resources. Neither should curate content that fails to give a deeper grasp of reality. When your church\u2019s bookstall overseer isn\u2019t feeding the sheep healthy food, they\u2019re working against the digestion of the church\u2019s entire teaching ministry.<\/p>\n
Pastors, the world of Christian and pseudo-Christian books is overwhelming. Please don\u2019t let your people fend for themselves. An elder should oversee your church bookstall. Why?<\/p>\n
1. The bookstall magnifies your teaching ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n I was always amazed by the errant publications that made their way into the \u201cChristian\u201d section of brick-and-mortar bookstores. While the employees who stocked the shelves may have had good intentions, they did not necessarily have a pastoral ability or responsibility to teach the Word. But you do, pastor. The books your church sells or gives away are an extension of your teaching ministry.<\/p>\n Just like when your people walk through a Smithsonian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When your church\u2019s bookstall overseer isn\u2019t feeding the sheep healthy food, they\u2019re working against the digestion of the church\u2019s entire teaching ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-55425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-leadership","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55427,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55425\/revisions\/55427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}