I've observed an interesting trend in at least three megachurches recently: the man who grew the church to "mega" status retires and appoints his son to replace him. All of the young men are in their late 20s or early 30s and served on staff at their fathers' churches before being appointed senior pastor.
Only time will tell how this will work out, but consider that in all three instances the young men grew up in great wealth and privilege (think private jets and mansions) with the unique status of being a PK. They began preaching at an early age—often in their teens—attended Bible college or did an internship, and are now given leadership of congregations of thousands, huge staffs and budgets of tens of millions of dollars. In the process, associate pastors with greater maturity, education and experience have been passed over and are now their employees.
Am I the only one who sees a disaster in the making?
2 comments:
You're not the only one - in fact, God is shaking His finger in disapproval...
Not sure what you mean, Matt, cause it all worked out well for kingdoms in the past. Especially Egypt. Maybe we can get some more sweet pyramids out of the incestuous practices...? One can only hope that something monolithic can occur before the inevitable disaster to come.
But I doubt it.
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