The shortage of good candidates for nonconformist pastoral ministry is well known.
And the remedy prescribed by our Lord seems simple: to pray that the Lord of the harvest would send out workers into his harvest field.
Yet while we pray and look to the Lord to act, might we also ponder the enormous hurdles faced by potential candidates for ministry? We might consider the situation of men and women gifted for a variety of roles in the church, but here I focus on the situation of men called to full-time preaching and teaching in the local church.
