An Ordinary Church Member

Christian biographies tend to focus on missionaries, ministers and others who have played prominent roles. A partial exception is the book Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor by Don Carson. Carson is a prominent author and conference speaker – but his father wasn’t. Tom Carson was simply an ordinary minister who no-one would ever have heard of his more famous son hadn’t written his biography. 

Yet if a book entitled Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor is unusual, a book containing the memoirs of an ordinary church member probably doesn’t exist. (The exception might be if they end up being killed for their faith, like the Wigtown Martyrs. But what about folk who have served away for decades, died and been forgotten?), Being a missionary or minister doesn’t make anyone more valuable in God’s sight, and so surely it is right to also celebrate those who have played less upfront roles. To read the rest of this article that Rev. Stephen Steele wrote for a local paper, click here.