By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector
lwilkey@tnbaptist.org
FRANKLIN — A transitional interim pastor (TIP) can help pave the way for a new pastor at any church regardless of size or circumstances, observed three active TIPs.
While many think that a transitional interim pastor is just called to churches that have had a bad experience with a previous pastor, that’s not always the case, said Bob Brown, former church revitalization specialist for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board and a transitional interim pastor himself.
Brown has served in seven transitional interim pastorates over the past few years and will begin his eighth in January. He has been in large and small churches and situations that have been both good and difficult.
“In those difficult ones, you don’t expect to clear up all the problems. You try to get the church members to act more like Christ and deal with the major issues,” he said. [Read more…]