We had quite a bit of traffic on the first Church Staffing post this week and a few comments. In fact, that post is still dragging lurkers at a pretty decent clip, so it must have hit a nerve, or at least been moderately interesting.
So the last one was primarily about part and full time staff. How about another balancing act?
Which do you value more? Education or experience?
Do you qualify education? Seminary over Bible College? PhD v DMin v MDiv v MDivBL? Do you check grades?
Do you value one Seminary over another? Why?
How does experience factor in? It can’t mean nothing, so what does it mean? Does mega church intern beat small church Chief?
I know guys who, during Seminary, took tiny churches in the boondocks because they wanted the title “Senior Pastor” on their resume, while I volunteered as a Youth Worker and Sunday School teacher at a local church. Know what? It worked. They got taken more seriously by a lot of search committees and went to larger churches than I did. Which is fine, because I went where I needed to go and served that church for almost ten years.
I’ll also add this controversial thought: Most PhD’s I know have been decent profs (not all), but I’ve rarely known a PhD that made good preachers or pastors. Settle down, I’m not saying all academics are too in their head to pastor, but anecdotally, I’ve seen academics thrive best in academia.
So, where’s the balance?
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