Revitalization: Church Attendance and Need for Bivocational Ministers"Part-time" pastors are not second rate, they are normative globally and key to the health of the local church in the West
Welcome to Ryan M Marks Don’t recognize this sender? Unsubscribe with one click Ryan M Marks recently imported your email address from another platform to Substack. You'll now receive their posts via email or the Substack app. To set up your profile and discover more on Substack, click here. Recently, I have found myself in a few conversations online which have organized my thoughts on some matters I have been trying to articulate for sometime. First, I ran across the following:
Sadly, I think this is the condition of most States in the USA from the stories I hear. While I can’t answer that for KY, I can from being from Missouri--yes many are offering bivocational pay. Reality is ministry full-time is the exception not the norm globally and across this country, especially in conservative denominations like the SBC. It’s time for us to wake up to this reality and prepare and release bivocational ministers--it was the New Testament design. Mergers or adoptions work in some cases but they are not a guarantee of long-term ministry. Bivocational pastors are key. Even in seminary I was told, “don’t expect to fulfill your calling with full time pay.” And I never did. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few!... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app
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Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Revitalization: Church Attendance and Need for Bivocational Ministers
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