Pastors and Public Servants: Lead Your Neighbor as Yourself

As a pastor, I’ve found one of the main difficulties in leading faithfully and living as good neighbors is that we can’t always choose our neighbors or the context and circumstances in which we lead and live. And in a time of tense divisiveness, global conflicts, natural disasters, and other complex crises, this sense of helplessness is nearly universal. We have all experienced the reality of a world beyond our control—not least during the COVID-19 pandemic, when life changed for all of u