Ministers often muse about where and to whom can they turn for advice and wisdom. They are expected to be the caregivers, not the care receivers.
Productivity is the driving force for ministers.
Higher education institutions, which provide ministerial training, seldom follow through with lifelong education opportunities for their alumni. Instead of providing a home for ministers for life, training institutions are inclined to use all their resources for current students. Ministers between 28 and 40 years of age may be the group at greatest risk. A Real World naivet can and does send these church leaders into a world unprepared to deal with real people and real issues. Ministers, often the focal congregational spiritual leaders, may lack individual spirituality necessary for such critical leadership.