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August 24, 2005
Business Savvy Pastors in High Demand
(Filed under: Demographics/Research)A recent article reports that pastors and church leaders with business and marketing backgrounds are in high demand. And more church leaders have those skills since 2 in 3 seminarians are over 30, giving them time to have business experience. Plus of men in seminary, the most common educational background was technical science, including business, communications, and computer science.
Churches are seeing the need and value for marketing, and seeking it out, whether it's on-staff expertise or outside experts.
Too bad not everybody gets it.
Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at August 24, 2005 9:37 PM
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As much as that stuff is important, please don't misunderstand, I think it's absolutely necessary for a pastor (at least a SP) to also have the calling of God on his life to be a pastor. I know you're not disagreeing in your post, but just trying to add to the perspective.
Posted by: Anne Jackson at August 25, 2005 3:10 PM
I guess I assume a calling from God to be a pastor would go without saying.
Posted by: kevin at August 25, 2005 3:52 PM
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