Here is an official response for Hottub since he placed my name above his list of things to tell young pastors.
1. Yes you have forgotten more than we probably know about the Bible, so tell us before you forget more!
2. Please be our friend because most of the pastors our age don’t talk to each other very much. None of us have a reason but we all claim to be “busy”.
3. Yes we are the kind that do not wear ties on Wednesday, so don’t ask.
4. Rick Warren is not our hero even though most of you all think we worship him.
5. If we get the big head please knock us down to size before the deacons do. Its better to get mad at you than lose our cool somewhere else.
6. When we ask you to preach on Sunday morning don’t drive up in a white Cadillac dressed in a white suit like you are R. G . Lee. People think you look like Col. Sanders.
7. You are the only preachers we can ask to preach sunrise service. You wake up at 4 a.m. !
8. Don’t ask us to drive you to do hospital visits or to the convention if you are going to complain about having to go to the nervous hospital or take more medicine because of our driving.
9. Don’t become a DOM when you are preparing to retire and then complain constantly about all the youngsters in the association tearing up churches. We didn’t move every 2 years for 40 years leaving a wake of destruction behind us.
10. Don’t start a blog to make friends. Hottub we are still your friends but we were before you rose up against the machine.
11. We are 35 years old and have spent most of our adult life gaining an education that will not advance us in any way economically. Our people still think we wear diapers so don’t call us kids or say things like, ” You look too young to be a pastor.” We hear that too much already.
Dwight Easler, 35, Kicking, but not as high as I used to.
