On "Ordinary" Pastors

Carl Trueman writes in Republocrat:

[The] Lord has blessed the church of today with some remarkably talented individuals who have been used to do remarkable things [e.g. Keller, Piper, and Driscoll]. The danger is that, in focusing on such men, we create unrealistic expectations. The evidence that the church models developed by these men can be transplanted with success elsewhere is highly equivocal; more likely, their success is rooted in God's using their own remarkable gifts and contexts—the right men in the right place at the right time for something great, if you like. The life of Don Carson's father, outlined so movingly in his Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor, is more likely to be closer to the norm for most churches and pastors than that of Redeemer in New York (38-39).

The DG blog outlines some very important implications for us from this quote.  Read those here.