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The First Christians Didn't Have a Pastor
Somewhere this Sunday, a man will walk onto a stage, and everyone will call him the pastor. A Christian from the year 60 would have no idea who he is. The New Testament uses “pastor” for church leaders exactly once, never addresses a letter to one, and describes churches run by teams of elders meeting in living rooms. So where did the job come from? The trail runs through a church manual obsessed with freeloading prophets, a congregation that fired its leaders in 96 AD, and an old man in chains whose letters invented the office on his way to die in the arena. This is the story of how one word…
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