Good thoughts by Paul S. Williams on ministers who, without fame or grand recognition, serve their congregations:
Nowadays we are so fixated on celebrity ministers that we have eyes for little else. But there are so many more who look so much like Jesus. We do not see them because we are not paying attention. We are too busy attending to the voice of ambition, seeking the successful and famous.
What’s nice to remember is that this does represent the majority of those who work in pastoral/church ministry both here and throughout the world. Many of them work “real jobs” other than church work. They have never written a book. They have never been invited to speak at a conference. They are likely not sources for the wide array of highly touted models claiming to have the keys to “ministry effectiveness”.