Contrary to popular belief, this qualification doesn’t mean that the pastor and his wife should have potlucks at their house for all the people in their church. Nor does it mean that pastor’s homes should be a revolving door for people in the church to come and hang out, watch network television and “do community”
– Church Planter, Darrin Patrick (p. 49)
Some pastors and pastor families have the great power to do lots and lots of this kind of stuff. I’m not one of them and I think it’s great to reinforce that you don’t need to have a super dooper open home to be an effective and loving pastor.
