Worth giving your life for

In September 2021 someone asked me (Charles Hewlett, Baptist National Leader), “Is pastoral leadership worth giving my life for?” What an important question. I wonder how you would respond if someone asked you this?Over a COVID-19 lockdown I went on a bit of a Zoom journey and asked this very question to a number of Baptist pastoral leaders. What did they think? While each person acknowledged there is cost to embrace, they all answered with an emphatic, YES! Pastoral leadership is definitely worth giving my life to.They talked with me about:helping people know Jesus and to grow in their relationship with himwalking alongside others in the many different and difficult seasons of lifebuilding healthy teams and seeing people empowered to use their spiritual giftssitting around with a small-group unpacking the grace, truth, and hope of Scriptureaiding youth and young adults to think and act biblically concerning the big issues facing our world—to make the big decisions for Jesus!the honour we have of watching God at work in ways that can only be described as miraculoushelping the church identify where God is already at work in their communities, and mobilising people to join himbringing Gospel redemption, reconciliation, and renewal.Absolutely this is worth giving your life to!Through these seven short videos I share my conversations with you. Can I encourage you to watch them (only 2-minues long) and then forward them onto the leaders in your faith communities—shoulder tap them and let them know that despite the cost pastoral leadership is definitely worth giving their life for.