Leading to Serve » Blog Archive » Tribute to pastor Gordon Cosby – a servant-leader

On its front page on Tuesday, January 06, 2009, the Washington Post paid tribute to Gordon Cosby founder and pastor for over 60 years of the Church of the Savior in Washington, DC.

In a day when stadium worship mega-churches with their mega-pastors dominate the religious landscape one pastor in Washington, DC led a counter-cultural movement. I heard Cosby warn that it’s important to keep churches small and poor. Small to ensure fully engaged members and poor so that members would not be tempted to use their resources to construct buildings rather than serve the poor.