Reflections on Being a Pastor

Over this first year in pastoral ministry, I have done a great deal of reflection on what is means to be a pastor. The first few weeks were an adjustment to the idea that people were even calling me "pastor." It took me a few months to begin to understand that being a pastor was more than just a title...I continue to learn more about this.

I have been facing a struggle about the pastor that I want to be. It is certainly not a definite dichotomy, but I think about my lifestyle as a pastor going one of two ways:

1. Do I want to be appear more approachable and interact and do things things more like the layperson would do?
2. Do I feel called to live life with a high standard, realizing that some things that I enjoy doing or that are meaningful to me may not fit within that call to a higher standard of living?

This is a choice that I still struggle with and think about. We talked a little bit about this in class today. It didn't help in my decision, but it offered additional perspective. It would appear for now that I still feel safe playing Dungeons and Dragons ;).