Max Lucado Quotes About Pastors

Quotes about: Pastors

• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Pastor

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

• I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I think the hardest questions had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

  Max Lucado

  Firsts, Pastor

  Source: www.preaching.com

• The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

  Max Lucado

  Strong, Voice, Temptation

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I don't know if I'll always be a pastor.

  Max Lucado

  Pastor, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.preaching.com

• I think the hardest one had to do with suffering. It had to do with all of our church members and friends passing through difficult times. Sometimes it's the global climate: tsunamis, earthquakes, radiation. I think these kinds of questions are absolutely the most difficult, yet we need to be ready to respond to them because we have to be able as pastors to walk people through these valleys, these tough times in their lives.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

  Max Lucado

  Maturity, Feelings, Church

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

  Max Lucado

  Struggle, Church, Trying

  Source: www.preaching.com

• I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Years, June

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Exercise, Years

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Ideas, Grace

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Thinking, Pastor

  "Preaching on Life". Interview with Michael Duduit, www.preaching.com. May 27, 2011.

• I think that the Holy Spirit works through the pastors of the church. It helps me avoid the trap of writing to the reading market. It helps me stay a pastor first, because they have no agenda; they are not thinking: "This would this be a good book someday." They're thinking: "How this will help Bob and Suzy who are going through a tough marriage? What series can encourage them?" And so I really bow to their preference.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.preaching.com

• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

  Max Lucado

  Teacher, Church, Roles

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

• We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

  Max Lucado

  Weekend, Play, Church

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.

  Max Lucado

  Exercise, People, Interesting

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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