Help Wanted (actually help needed)

“I am having the depressing experience of reading congregational descriptions of what church want in a pastor. With hardly an exception they don’t want pastors at all – they want managers of their religious company. They want a pastor they can follow so they won’t have to bother with following Jesus anymore.”

• Eugene Peterson

This goes right along with what my Pastor spoke of Sunday evening. He read from some ‘ads’ different churches had published who were looking for pastors: “Young congregation seeking experienced pastor to ….”, “Mature congregation seeking young pastor to invigorate our….”. All these requirements, but nowhere a mention of doctrine. Nowhere a request for “a man after God’s own heart”