Yes. Church planters need more than just young people.
Prayer Doesn’t Empower the Ministry, Prayer is the Ministry
Amen!
It feels a tad self-serving to link to this, but it’s needed. Our celebrity pastor culture has some pretty unhelpful side-effects.
Three Ways of Looking at Pastoral Ministry
This is very helpful…and I think would apply to deacons as well (though tweaked just a bit).
I love how WWUTT treats God’s placement of the tree of knowledge of good and evil:
I taught on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil a few weeks ago at church. I approached it from a point of Christian epistemology and the noetic effects of sin. So we read in Scripture where sin teaches us about God’s full nature. Without sin we wouldn’t know God’s wrath and grace. However, sin also distorts our understanding of God. If we rely on our own understanding, we fall into darkness. If we trust fully on God, then the theological tension goes away. The work of Christ on the cross opens the gate for access to the tree of life. So we get to the tree of life through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil by trusting in Christ.