Some pastors seem to believe they are called to be content machines. They must output content - podcasts, tweets, blog posts, videos, etc., with their "hot takes" on everything from politics to history to theology to cultural analysis, several times a week.
I see no good reason for this. God's purpose in giving us the body of Christ is to teach us to rely on eachother. And he has deliberately distributed his gifts widely and in ways that always confound our neat, pre-determined patterns, in order to humble us. Anyone who tries to do everything, and dominate his followers' lives so that they get all or a large quantity of their input and ways of thinking from him, is harming his hearers and contradicting God's plan for the church.
One conceit that pervades our race is the idea that we can ignore the fact that we are creatures. I'm quite familiar with this. Do more! Go further! Outstrip the others! (It's hard to get away from having this drilled into you for years at school. Every Monday morning assembly: commendations and rewards for those who won, achieved, got prizes.... I'm very grateful for all things my school did equip me with, but it takes longer to untangle you get taught without them ever being explained or defended. Let us all do the best we can with the means we can - but let us never measure ourselves or others by the resulting rankings).
The fact is, though, that God puts those limits on us for our good. We must sleep, and thus we must lay down our heads each night and be completely out of control, out of awareness, as good as out of this world. All must, by faith and prayer, be left with God. Each Sabbath day too, we must cease (which is what "Sabbath" means) - for our own good. It's a gift of God's kindness, and reminds us every week, that we don't need to try to be in control. And then there will be times of rest and retreat - either planned, or enforced by the simple laws of our finite biology, catching up with us one way or the other. These things are actually helps: rather than give someone our own opinion on everything, we can instead point him or her to someone who's been gifted and had the time to go further than we have, and they can learn from them.
Some pastors are very fine scholars. And some people are just generally amazing in what they can do. However - the very strong likelihood is that any pastor who is trying to be an omni-present "content machine" who virtually or actually presents himself as an oracle on all things likely has both a problem in himself, and gets a lot of things wrong which you'd be able to detect easily enough if you listened and read more widely. Deep study and reflection, pastoring a church, and producing a fast-paced stream of useful output, are three activities which are extremely difficult to all do in the same life-time, much less all at the same time.
There's no real reason to try it, since it contradicts God's purpose and is going to harm the hearers. There will, though, always be plenty of people trying it. Even the church at Ephesus, planted by an apostle, had to be told "Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves" (Acts 20:30). Men are always trying to draw away followers after themselves. How aware they are of what they're doing may vary much, self-deception being what it is. But trying to be a one-man content machine who leads his followers into thinking that he's a great authority on everything, seems like a pretty good sign of it. For your own spiritual health, beware of content machines. We have 20 centuries of Christian writers and thinkers to learn from. People from all sorts of times and places can humble us and help us with what they've learned. Let the body of Christ minister to you, as God intended.
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