It seems like far too many people treat relationships of all sorts as being disposable. As soon as they hit a rough patch of any sort they decide to pull up stakes, move on, and find a new relationship. This is especially the case, I believe, when it comes to church membership.
What happens when you lose your pastoral call and you think you should change vocations? Or what happens if you graduate of seminary and after a number of years you still haven’t been able to get a call? Should you hang up your cleats? Making such decisions can be difficult and heart-wrenching.
Despite all of our modern pretensions to advancement and evolution, even though 1,500+ years have passed since Augustine’s day, our so-called evolved society still has bloodlust and regularly lathers its hands in violence as a form of entertainment.
This is the personal website of Dr. Fesko. He presently serves at Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson, MS) as Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He has served in church planting, pastoral ministry, and teaching for more than twenty years. Views expressed here are his own.