Thoughts For Young Ministers With Older Elders

As I lifted my hands, scanned the room, and gave my first benediction, the realization that I really was a pastor now hit me like a ton of bricks. From now on it was my job to “shepherd the flock of God… exercising oversight…not domineering over those in [my] charge, but being [an] example[ ] to the flock” (1 Pet. 5:2-3). But this responsibility wasn’t mine alone. My calling was to shoulder this load alongside a group of godly men, all of whom were my parents age or older.

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