Educated pastors is the last thing we should be spoofing. We need more of them! The cartoon should be about all those pastors whose "ministries" (read careers) are defined by "book deals" and "bigger buildings."

Good point, Sam, but I've always thought it was odd for pasters to want to be called Dr. I say get the degree, use it to your advantage and serve the people. Who cares what people call you, as long as they don't call you late for dinner! ;o)

This cartoon rightly portrays the institutionalized form of church with it's bogus preoccupation with classroom driven expertise labels and God's design of humble servant leadership dominated by example driven teaching with some talking teaching added in. This false dynamic will never stop as long as pastoring demands pay. The system must nullify Paul's strong teaching on refusing the right to be paid and ministering free of charge.

The greatest tragedy of this is that the household of faith is loaded with faithful men who match every requirement of oversight, yet because they meet their own needs as business men and have no seminary degree will never be seen in the institutionalized church as pastors. Even these men have no vision that they should see themselves as pastors because their whole spiritual life has been dominated by the hired, degreed expert orientation to pastoring.

So...its 12:05am. I am studying Hebrew...this third semester is much tougher than the previous two. Took a break and thought to work on a lesson I am preparing for this next Wednesday (on servant leadership)...this site came up on google...read the comic...read your comments...feel like I've been kicked in the gut...thanks....brothers???

posted my email address. happy to fellowship with you anytime! (no degree required!)