Evotional.com - Mark Batterson

I'm convinced that creating culture is the most important and most difficult job for any pastor. I was thinking about staffing recently. We need to add three or four positions yesterday :)

Here are a few random thoughts:

Do any churches have a pastor of culture or a pastor of stories?

We're very intentional about creating the right culture at NCC and the whole staff is very conscious of it. But Pastor Joel probably comes as close as anyone to being our pastor of culture. Along with missions, outreach and playing the point pastor role at Ballston, Joel spearheads our Club events. I think the club events are an important part of our personality. I love our worship events (Catacombs) and fun events (Variety Show). I also think our videos are a huge part of creating the right culture.

I think the church has forgotten the power of testimony. I think we're under-performing in this area, but we want to be doing more video documentaries and online documentaries on our website (www.theaterchurch.com). I'd love to have a pastor of stories whose only job is to document the stories of what God is doing in the lives of NCCers. Part of what prompts this is the amazing stories I've heard in the last week about NCCers getting saved and being called to missions. Nothing is more inspiring! We've got to be good stewards of those stories!