Average Age of Pastors
Jul 11, 2007 Uncategorized
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Here’s an interesting chart from Said At Southern Seminary:
What do you think?
Only 17% of Senior Pastors are under 40.
What does that mean?
Is it a good or a bad thing?
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July 11th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I think it means what everyone already knows; the SBC (mostly) has no desire to be flexible in their ministry and outreach model, particularly in engaging young people. I think it’s both good and bad; good because churches that loose sight of mission should be closed or let to expire, bad because that’s sad. Also sad because on many theological issues I fall closest to SBC.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
There was an implied “unless they change” in that second sentence, hopefully that was clear.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Good or bad? How about “Interesting but in the end, mostly meaningless without more information”?
How long does it take for a person to come to saving faith? How long does it take for him to reach maturity in the faith?
Suppose that my congregation appoints 4 pastors a year, ages 20, 25, 30, and 35. The congregation has done this since time before time - or at least 100 A.D., and all pastors are caught up in chariots of fire at age 80.
I think that means the church has 220 pastors. How many are under 30? Only 15, or 7%. How many are under 40? 50, or 23%.
That’s surprisingly close to the SBC numbers - and I think 20 is very young age for pastors.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Bravo, Alan. Especially the line “and all pastors are caught up in chariots of fire at age 80.”
March 11th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I was pastoring at age 17. I really wasn’t prepared to pastor until I was 30, after 13 years of ministry and leading over 5000 people to Jesus. I have talked to many that still didn’t know what they believed even after receiving their Mdiv. Perhaps the fact that Jesus entered formal ministry at 30 was more than a cultural factor. Perhaps it was a model.
Larry Thacker
August 1st, 2008 at 11:58 am
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