People ask me what I think of  The Purpose Driven Church…and I tell them I am more caught up in being a Purpose Driven Pastor, focused as Paul was in Romans 15 on developing and delivering obedient disciples to the King. John Piper put this ambition into words beautifully for me:

“To watch a people grow in radical obedience to Jesus, and to watch them fall out of love with the world and into love with Christ, and to see them seek the kingdom first and let material things go, to see them become bold in their witness, and compassionate toward the poor, and respectful toward ethnic diversity, and devoted to sexual purity, and committed to world missions, and a wartime lifestyle that maximizes resources for the global cause of magnifying Christ—to see this happen in our ministry through Jesus Christ is the greatest thing that can happen to a pastor.”

John Piper in A Pastor’s Offering

Romans 15:17-18

17 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God. 18 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience – by word and deed.