“While some churches insist on their leaders having higher education degrees, it is suggested that Pentecostals scorn the idea of formal training because it doesn’t represent a dependence on the Holy Spirit. The people who sit in our pews are often learned and more knowledgeable than those they are looking to for spiritual direction. ‘There
must be a deliberate, consistent, and determinate action towards higher education… encouraged for all practicality (especially) for those in the ministry serving in areas where the emerging leadership needs that kind of development.” (citation from thesis)
“Organized churches are seeing their members leaving for more independent and charismatic bodies. We also aren’t seeing young men and women who are aspiring to be ministers and in many church groups the pastors, like myself are aging and there is no clear process for grooming new leaders.”
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Every day the responsibilities become more difficult, and therefore the men and women emerging must be trained to undergo the heavy demands of leadership. They must see us, as established leaders, bearing up under the strain of cross-bearing, in whatever form that strain may come. They need to know that it is not all glamor, but there are days of darkness and weakness. There is a promise, however, from the Master, that he will never leave us nor forsake us. That too is part of the training that they should receive.
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