https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/06/16/pastoral-picks-616/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/06/16/pastoral-picks-616/#comment-2180 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:30:37 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/blog/2011/06/16/pastoral-picks-616/#comment-2180 A Messenger article on the below quote would be fabulous!! Two such problems may be mentioned: how can a man’s qualifications for such a ministry be confidently judged at a time when he still lacks those criteria which were employed in the New Testament for admission to the ministry of oversight, namely, the satisfactory discharging of the duties of being the head of a household, the successful educating of his children, his aptness to teach and discipline his household, and his blameless reputation among his neighbours? The second problem is similar: how can such a young man adequately exercise the ministry to which he is ordained, when he has no experience (of the kind mentioned in the New Testament) on which to draw? Does he not shoulder an intolerable burden?’

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