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I was overseeing the doctoral program, and the potential student calling my office landline had a fundamental question for me: \u201cDo you allow 71-year-old retirees to apply for your program?\u201d I jokingly told him, \u201cYes, as long as you pay the full tuition up front\u201d (and, how I was grateful he had a good sense of humor!). Within months, in fact, he was a student in our program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was one of the few times that one of my students was old enough to be my dad. I recall the looks of my much younger students when they entered the classroom and saw an older man in a suit coat and tie. I suspect they assumed that he was a guest speaker for the day. He was, after all, the oldest guy in the room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long, though, for the young doctoral students to gravitate toward this older brother in Christ. They grew to want to hear his thinking\u2014and I shared that desire even though I was the professor in charge of the class. It\u2019s that background that has led to my still remembering some of this brother\u2019s more powerful statements within the classroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On this particular day, we were discussing the unhealthiness of local churches, often guided by unhealthy leaders. Our brother leaned back in his chair and quietly and humbly said to the class, \u201cGentlemen, here\u2019s one of the primary problems I see with many pastors. . . .\u201d\u00a0 He paused, and all of us waited with anticipation to learn from his experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the problems I see with many pastors,\u201d he said, \u201cis that they\u2019re actually pastoring three churches: <\/span>the one they never got over<\/span><\/i> because they either (a) remember only the glory days or (b) bear the scars of a tough experience; <\/span>the one they\u2019re currently pastoring <\/span><\/i>that should be their primary focus but sometimes isn\u2019t; and <\/span>the one they\u2019d like to be pastoring<\/span><\/i>\u2014usually a \u2018bigger and better church.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Brothers<\/span><\/i>,\u201d he continued, \u201c<\/span>you can\u2019t be the best pastor you can be when your eyes are on more than one congregation<\/span><\/i>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For young pastors in the class who aspired for more recognition, the words challenged them at a heart level. For the few of us in the room who had already tried to navigate more than one congregation in our minds, our brother had put into words a problem we had never been able to articulate. So much did his words challenge me that I still remember them decades later. They were, and still are, the wisest thing I have ever heard from a 71-year-old student.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps his words spoken so many years ago still speak to your heart today. If so, let us know in the comments section how we might pray for you and your work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was overseeing the doctoral program, and the potential student calling my office landline had a fundamental question for me: \u201cDo you allow 71-year-old retirees to apply for your program?\u201d I jokingly told him, \u201cYes, as long as you pay the full tuition up front\u201d (and, how I was grateful he had a good sense…","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":832508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"publish_to_discourse":"0","publish_post_category":"1","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,184,175,177,14796,180,194],"tags":[19261,19262,86,19260,19259],"class_list":["post-832506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-answers","category-discipleship","category-grow","category-lead","category-monday-wednesday-featured","category-outreach-and-evangelism","category-preaching","tag-congregation","tag-doctoral-program","tag-pastor","tag-student","tag-wise"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Wisest Thing I Ever Heard a 71-Year-Old Student Say | Church Answers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I was overseeing the doctoral program, and the potential student calling my office landline had a fundamental question for me: \u201cDo you allow 71-year-old retirees to apply for your program?\u201d I jokingly told him, \u201cYes, as long as you pay the full tuition up front\u201d (and, how I was grateful he had a good sense of humor!). 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