While going to college, I worked to pay my way through. Let me give you a bit of advice on student
loans: Don’t do it. Pay as you go. It took me 11 years to graduate from college,
but I was debt free. But, I digress
… I worked night shift at Mueller company
making cast iron valves and fire hydrants.
One job I had was slagging the furnaces.
I had to scrape off the crud from the top of the liquid iron. Iron melts at 2800° F. It was a hot and dirty job. Often, my boss would come up to my station
and tap me and tell me to take a break.
Then he would do my job for me while I was cooling off. Soon, I would recover and feel guilty as my
boss was doing my job. I would tap him
and get back to work with renewed vigor.
He was a wise man. Just like a
wise pastor who doesn’t drive his people like horses or prod his people like
cattle but lead his people like sheep. A
wise pastor is an example to his people, not a lord over his people. The Apostle Peter said it best in I Peter
5:2&3, “Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight
thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready
mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the
flock.”
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