Who will be the next pastor of your church?

Few things in Baptist Church life rival the experiences that come during the times of true revival and or the calling of a new pastor. The former, true revival is often prayed for but rarely experienced. History is filled with stories of meetings called revivals that resulted in a few people having warm fuzzy feelings rather than a congregation being renewed and revitalized through heaven sent revival. The latter, the calling of a pastor, occurs approximately every four years, on average, in Baptist churches. Just as with revivals, I’m afraid that many times churches have settled for far less than a pastor sent from God. If your church is seeking a new pastor, does this really matter? Who will be your next pastor? This book is a look at that process as seen through the eyes of a Southern Baptist pastor of thirty years. While many of the details of this book are extremely personal, many pastors and lay people will be able to relate. This book is not intended to make light of our time honored Baptist traditions but rather to cause us to look more closely at the process. When it comes to calling a pastor for God’s church, we should seek nothing more and settle for nothing less,Only God’s Man!

Michael is a native Texan born in Jacksonville and raised in Lufkin. He is a graduate of Southwestern Seminary, Louisiana Baptist University, and Southwest Bible College. He has served as the pastor of churches in Wells, Marshall, Lufkin, and Bryan. Michael is the founding pastor of Southside Baptist Church in Lufkin and Christ’s Way Baptist Church in Bryan, where he has served for over ten years. He and His wife almost forty years, Pam, have two daughters and sons-in-law; Amy and Rodney Seaman, and Candice and David Williams. They have four grandchildren living here; Cassie, Cole, Ashton, and Ty and two living in heaven; Abigail Grace and Brody.