But then I found myself thinking even more about a second sensation. And how few the harvest hands. I suspect so, and there's every reason to believe that this harvest is remarkably ripe. An interesting statistic in the midst of an unprecedented amount of teenage violence, like the tragedy at Columbine High School. First, in my opinion, there has never been a time in church history when the call to pastor was more relevant and more necessary.
Pastors remain the spiritual vanguard for the Kingdom of God.
There is no higher calling. Second, as Luke 10 states, the harvest hands are few, and in many areas the number is shrinking. This is a mandate pastors should grasp better than anyone else, a mandate we must embrace. Pastors fervently praying for more pastors. Pastors seeking out potential pastors, engaging potential pastors, encouraging potential pastors, discipling potential pastors, assisting potential pastors.