Coordinate with other like-minded Pastors in the community by
forming a Pastor Council

We understand the distinctions between the Universal Church (comprised of every follower of Jesus Christ throughout the world) and the local church (comprised of those who identify themselves with a specific church body regardless of whether they actually have a personal relationship with Christ). Very often the denominational, racial and municipal lines that have developed within the Universal Church have served to also separate both Pastors and laymen when it comes to impacting and influencing the culture and government.

The scenario very often goes like this: A “moral crisis” occurs (e.g. school board votes to allow gay clubs on a high school campus, Planned Parenthood is given access to school children to “educate them”, a Sexually Oriented Business plans to open near a neighborhood, etc.) that motivates a pastor to speak out. He takes a few – or even many - members of his church to the public meeting, voices his concerns and subsequently two things occur. He is either graciously ignored or even greeted with hostility, and in addition may even become the target of an effort to characterize him and his church with one or more of many labels in an attempt to marginalize him.
Very simply, the task of impacting our culture and government with Biblical principles is not the responsibility of “a” local church; it is the fundamental duty of “the” Universal Church. The Cultural Mandate as part of the Great Commission is a universal directive given to ALL believers, and therefore ALL Bible-believing churches. In other words, no pastor or church should stand alone with the burden of being the sole prophetic voice of God’s righteousness and justice.

This section provides suggestions and a model plan to develop a team of pastors and their selected lay leaders who will stand together, speak together and act together. Some say it cannot be done, that there are too many “turf”, doctrinal and even ego issues to overcome. Those claims are an offense to the very nature of Christ and the clear Scriptural identity of ‘one body’.

There is at least a remnant of pastors and churches who CAN and WILL come together for this purpose – will you be one of them?  Information on organizing a pastor-led team can be found at "Mobilizing God's Generals".

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