Retirement

[Classik]

So should pastors really retire, I mean when they age?

Or do we retire as workers in His Vine Yard?

 

[Kathi]

Why?there is alot of ministry to do in our world in many ways to bring the word of God to those who do not know Him.

 

[Claudya]

So should pastors really retire, I mean when they age?

Or do we retire as workers in His Vine Yard?

Sure a pastor should retire when he or she gets too old to do his/her job. And frankly, a pastor's job is hard work so they deserve their retirement.
As a worker in God's vineyard no one, pastor or lay wo/man, ever retires until the day of their death. One is a professional occupation, the other is every human's life long task.

 

[Classik]

A bit confused. Ageing pastors should really hand over the staff or keep using it?

 

[Deborah13]

That's between them, God, their family, and their congregation.

Why do people desire to have so many rules and judgments?

 

[jahjahwarrior]

Pastors age too just like the rest of us. So yes, there does come a time when they need to retire from actually being a full time pastor (writing weekly sermons, counseling people, running and organizing church activities, etc.). Although his age or retirement should never stop him from still witnessing to people and encouraging them with God's word whenever God brings forth opportunities to do so.

 

[Eugene]

God has given gifts He will not repent of. If we have the gift of teaching, do we closet it? What of retiring love?
My past pastor continued preaching and/or teaching a large congregation four times a week, and spending countless hours in visitation, or on the phone with different ones in prayer and other needs until the Lord took him at ninety-four years of age. Do we retire from being a Christian? Did Paul give up the good fight of faith or discontinue preaching to others?

Rom 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
Rom 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

 

[Classik]

I think the OT addresses this issue about ageing children of God. A verse says: And when he grew old, and his eyes were deem etc etc etc...

Can't remember the rest...

 

[Obadiah]

Why do so many people want to make out like someone who takes on the job of a pastor is supposed to be our slave? I mean really, they should work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, they should never be paid anything beyond bare necessities of life (God forbid they should ever in their lives be allowed to have anything fun, like a new jet ski!), and now they are all required to do this until the day they die with a continuous smile on their faces even when they are so old that their bodies are giving out to arthritis, stokes, and all the other ailments of old age?

Why do so many people who do little more than sit in a pew for a few minutes on Sunday mornings think their pastor is some kind of superhuman with no wants, desires, or feelings? In any profession some people work only as long as they need to before they can retire and others are workaholics who will work until the day they die. Why do people think pastors are some kind of different species?

 

[reba]

Obadiah you either have/are a pastor or a PK me PK you are right

 

[Pizza]

It is very much a matter of the individual. Age can be a horrible thing - a Pastor, like all of us, can end up with 'dim eyes', no hearing, frail health, etc.
I DO think that retirement can be a bad thing (my Dad retired at 62 and was happy for, about, a month - he started a small business and worked in it five days a week till he was 80. He died at 83.)

I can't see making a "hard and fast rule" for all.

 

[reba]

retiring has DH and i in the same house 24- 7 poor guy...

 

[Claudya]

Why do so many people want to make out like someone who takes on the job of a pastor is supposed to be our slave? I mean really, they should work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, they should never be paid anything beyond bare necessities of life (God forbid they should ever in their lives be allowed to have anything fun, like a new jet ski!), and now they are all required to do this until the day they die with a continuous smile on their faces even when they are so old that their bodies are giving out to arthritis, stokes, and all the other ailments of old age?

Why do so many people who do little more than sit in a pew for a few minutes on Sunday mornings think their pastor is some kind of superhuman with no wants, desires, or feelings? In any profession some people work only as long as they need to before they can retire and others are workaholics who will work until the day they die. Why do people think pastors are some kind of different species?

Yeah people expect pastors to be perfect role models, like, even more perfect than Christ Himself. Pastors are a professional group at a high risk of burnout syndrome because of the expectations they are dealing with.
Churches need to get more people to volunteer in order to take some of the load off the pastor's shoulders.

 

[Classik]

Reminds me of Moses' account when 70% of his spirit had to go for those other people that were elected to assist him. Was that 70%?