One of the major reasons we have lots of questionable characters as pastors today is because so many never really had a training in the Bible.
Some were like altar servers before their senior pastors decided to ordain them as pastors. Strangely, that's not how a pastor is supposed to be called.
It is the Lord Jesus Christ himself who calls anyone into the pastoral office. There's no precedence in Scripture where a pastor called another pastor.
The only thing the church is to do to those who are called by the Lord Jesus Christ is to confirm their calling and sent them forth to the work that the Lord has called them to do.
In Acts 13:2, as some church ministers were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for the special work to which I have called them."
Did you see that? To the work that he has called them! The church didn't call them. The Lord only instructed the church to confirm his calling upon their lives and sent them forth.
No pastor has the right to call anyone into the office of a pastor. It is the Lord who calls.
Serving your pastor as personal assistant, driver or domestic staff is not the route. Of course, it is good to serve. But that's not how to be a pastor.
The pastoral office is a spiritual office. Being an altar server who takes announcement doesn't make you qualified. It is the Lord who calls.
In Catholic church there's what they call an altar server. He's a lay assistant to the officiating priests during liturgy. An altar server attends to supporting tasks at the altar such as fetching and carrying, ringing the altar bell, helps bring up the gifts, brings up the book, among other things.
That's what some of you were doing before your pastor called you into the pastoral office. That's wrong.
Are you aware that the Catholic church that many of you think you are better than cannot make an altar server a priest?
If he must be a priest, then he has to go to a seminary to be trained to be a priest. And this takes a minimum of five years.
Stop rushing to be a pastor. Get trained even after you are called by the Lord.
Thanks for your time.
