Consider this a love note to a few unemployed preachers.
I have all this education and training. Why won’t churches call me as pastor?”
He was angry at God, at all churches, and at the system. He sported a college degree and two diplomas from seminary, the last entitling him to call himself “Doctor.”
And yet he was unemployed.
His resume’ shows two years each at several churches. Not a good record.
“The old churches are blackballing me,” he said. “I’m thinking of suing them.”
At one point he said, “I’m giving up on the organized church.”
Now, a casual observer may think I’m betraying a confidence here. I might be, except for one overriding thing: I’ve heard this same complaint, in one form or other, at least a half-dozen times over the years.
There’s a lot of this going around.