So how old should pastors be when they start preaching? Reagan started at 16, Graham at 19, but how about before they hit the double digits? How about at age 8 or 9? Can they really know the gospel well enough to preach it? Are they truly mature enough in their faith to be able to preach the word? What if they are being manipulated by parents? If they are a proven preacher should seminaries relax some standards and allow them to learn?
Well we have two kids that are doing just that? They are preaching the word to their congregations and in one case the kid is preaching to many churches. Is this some of the foolishness that Jesus warned us about would happened in the end times? Anyway here is the article, tell me what you think....
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3717627&page=1
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Its difficult to say how young is too young to be called into the full time ministry. With this particular story, I think the kids were a little too young. I mean part of ministry is relating and understanding what a person is going through through personal application. In regards to these kids, they haven't experienced hardship or gone through their teenage years yet. There are clear exceptions to the rule like you said Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, etc. but I think in this story they would not be able to relate to some teenager's problem or middle age adult.
26. At least to have your own ministry, I'd say 26 is pretty ideal.
26. At least to have your own ministry. Seriously, I don't think we mature until then. We can do a good job at a lot of things before then, but to have full responsibility - 26.
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