Ok people......
I was reminded of my friend Scott Phillips tonight and I use him to address another subject.....
Scott is a home missions pastor starting a church in Clinton Mississippi....
He built a nice little building a couple of years ago....
It is now too small....
So Scott is building a nice church building on I-20 there in Clinton....
Scott also pastors another church down in the Natchez Trace that nobody wanted....
Scott took it and it is prospering....
Scott was elected the Home Missions Director for the Mississippi District UPCI the other day....
Scott is a busy man as he does all of this and supports his family secularly....
Congrats on it all Scott....
But something is wrong with this picture.....
There are way too many armchair preachers in this movement....
There are many young men waiting on some preacher to die off so they will get a chance at the church....
There are many men who have locked themselves into secular situations who could not follow the call of God if they wanted to.....
There are many men who would rather be miserable next Sunday while some other guy is preaching....
Than be out there in the harvest themselves....
Brothers...
There is no shortage of preachers....
There is no shortage of harvest....
But there is a big time shortage of preachers willing to move into the harvest....
Pastor man....
Let em go......
Preacher man.....
Go....
Why is it a guy like Scott is doing the work of three or four preachers....
And you my friend are miserable.....
That chicken at those preacher dinners taste a lost better when you are actually a preacher.....
My daddy retired from pastoring but was miserable....
So he found a little church in the country with six little old ladies in it....
It is growing and he is on top of the world....
Thank God for what he is doing...
But why does an old retired guy have to come out of retirement to do this when there are hundreds of young bucks who claim a call and have a card?
Something is wrong with this picture....
Can somebody figure it out....
Blessings...
rks.....
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4 comments:
Good Stuff!!!
Thanks for saying what many would not have the guts to say!
God forbid men with a true calling on their life would sit idly by while a world remained lost.
Bro. Smith,
Great comments about a subject that is dear to my heart. I have worked for 12 years solid and have been a bi-vocational pastor. There are many days that I am weary and can't seem to muster up strength at times. I am a firm believer that God has always helped me do more than I thought I could. Thanks for some great thoughts - I hope that there is some minister that understands that there is a soul waiting on them.
Tim DeLano
The Elder is at it again. Ha! Only you can get away with this kind of stuff! Thanks for the read!
Bro. Smith,
I agree totally and appreciate the blog you wrote. There is no reason a "called preacher" should not be consumed with this message and it's responibility. It's more than excitement or zeal, but it is a passion that should become what we live for. Great words!!!!
Paul Thrasher
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