Becoming a Pastor is NOT a Career Path

Christian leaders are using the Church of God as an industry to profit from financially. Becoming a pastor is no longer a calling, but a career path. The first step at the age of eighteen years old is to decide to pursue the ministry just as if you were going into the business world. You major in a Bible-based degree in college and then continue to seminary for an additional degree. After graduating, you then apply for a pastoral job at any church that will take you. Often, you will church hop every several years when a better position becomes available. The ultimate goal is to plant your own church to build it into a mega-church, so you can author books, speak on the conference circuit and have your own teaching ministry to hopefully rake in millions of dollars. Last time I checked, that was not a strategy found in Scripture.