Building an Altar

An alarming statistic when it comes to the ministry is that a significant portion of those graduating from seminary and entering into the pulpit this summer will not be there in five years. These men will wash out of the ministry. In fact, it has gotten to be such a crises that conservative and evangelical seminaries are re-evaluating how best to prepare a man for kingdom service.

Now in their re-evaluation they have found that those who wash out of the ministry do so not because of moral failure, but because of discouragement, and a sense of wasted effort, and burn out. And yet all this flies in the face of what is written in God's word regarding the outlook and focus of a servant of God.

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