Friday, March 29, 2019

Qualified (Or Not)

This seems to be stating the obvious, but it is important anyway. Ministers often have an enormous amount of training and experience, in diverse areas. I think there are two dangers in this: on the one hand, a minister may think therefore that he or she is qualified to run a Church; on the other hand, a Church may underestimate the minister's qualifications for the job. OBSERVATION: But at the end of the day, a minister's calling is most important, and this may have little to do with training and experience. I myself have twelve years of ministerial training. Thirteen, if one adds what Congregationalists call "probation".

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