October is designated as Pastors Appreciation Month. This week, Pastor Ben Shin shared 7 ways we can start Celebrating Pastors’ Appreciation Month During COVID. And Alice Kim shared Two Ways We Can Better Appreciate Our Pastors.
In case you missed it, find our two-week series on the thoughts and experiences of two of our Black brothers in Christ — Community of Faith Bible Church Pastor Bobby Scott and Anacostia River Church Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile — on our website.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Brent Fulton: Chinese Christians Deserve a Better Label Than ‘Persecuted’
“We need the Chinese church to be defined not by its limitations or what it does, but by how it is being made into the image of Christ. The personal transformation taking place in the lives of Chinese believers is the key to this new narrative.”
2. Cassie Watson: Reading Narnia While the World Burns
“That’s what the Narnia series does for me. It’s not mindless escapism, allowing me to be somewhere else for a while. Rather, it opens my eyes to see Jesus at work even after I’ve turned the last page.”
3. Irwyn Ince: The Call—and Cost—of Beautiful Church Community
People have a God-given longing for intimate community. We were made by God for community and connection. We want to belong and experience a sense of being at home.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. DesiringGod: How Can I Love God More Than My Boyfriend?
“As a couple’s affection for one another deepens, how can they make sure they are loving God more than each other?”
2. Citizens Church: Lord I Need You
The music starts at the 7-minute mark. This is an older video, but I think it serves as a great introduction to their sound. Driving drums, keyboards and guitar effects, pure vocals. I love it.
3. Aaron Lee: Miscellaneous
Book Reviews: Thriving in Exile by Nick Minerva; Political Danger by James Renwick Willson; The Gathering Storm by Albert Mohler. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Tim St. John: Self-Care Inventory: Are You Serving Sustainably in the Local Church?
“Often as Christians, we can be quick to use what God has entrusted to us to take care of others and yet easily neglect caring well for our own minds, hearts, and bodies.”
2. Alice Kim: Two Ways We Can Better Appreciate Our Pastors
“Pastors need to be encouraged to cultivate personal interests and pleasures that are life-giving and point them to the rest and feasting promised in Christ.”
3. Brett McCracken: 8 Signs Your Christianity is Too Comfortable
“On the other side of discomfort is delight in Christ.”
4. Ben Shin: Celebrating Pastors’ Appreciation Month During COVID
“Most recently, during this time of pandemic and lockdown, pastors have now been required to learn a whole new set of skills that were never before imagined.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for October 9, 2020
Justin Giboney’s Both/AND Politics / When God Chooses Not to Give You Children / Why Do I Need to Read the Bible When We Have Bible Teachers Online?
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