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Old 09-24-2007, 12:59 PM
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This is a good thread topic Thaddeus!

Where to start.......hmmmm....well, I don't know if I could say many ministers are choosing to get out of ministry. However, I do know many who are choosing not to enter conventional traditional ministry opportunities.

I can't say as I blame them.

Why enter something with one hand tied behind your back by a rustic religious system?

Why enter traditional ministry when you know your family will suffer and sacrifice because parishoners expect it of ministry, but have no intention of sacrificing anything themselves?

Why enter traditional ministry when you are considered young at age forty, and have no voice?

Many men and women have counted the costs, and decided it's just not worth the time and effort. Instead, they choose to minister through house or internet churches. Or they involve themselves in a comfortable established megachurch in order to diminish the opportunity for failure.
wow surprises never cease to exist! PP complimenting my thread??

can you clarify and/or qualify some of your statments?

how do you define traditional conventional ministry & a rustic religious system ? are you specifially talking about UPC ?
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Old 09-24-2007, 01:20 PM
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wow surprises never cease to exist! PP complimenting my thread??

can you clarify and/or qualify some of your statments?

how do you define traditional conventional ministry & a rustic religious system ? are you specifially talking about UPC ?
I thought I was rather specific, but oh well.

No I am not speaking specifically about the UPC. I am speaking about an American mindset, perhaps advertised by the church, that a minister must be a man of complete and utter self-denial - to the detriment of his income, health, and family.
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