“Feel free to make changes.”
I’d just started a new call as the pastor of Cameron Presbyterian Church in Cameron, North Carolina, and a member of the search committee pulled me aside to say this.
My eyebrows shot up in surprise and doubt. “Really?”
“Really,” she confirmed.
In seminary, I had been given the sage advice,
“Don’t change anything during your first year in a new call.” In some churches, the advice...
