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advice to young pastors: learn to crane your neck
Paul, the old guy, advises Timothy, the younger guy, to be careful about empowering “new converts” too much too fast in the leadership department because they are more prone to “conceit.” As Bob Dylan sang, “there’s a whole lot of people dying tonight, from the disease of conceit.” Defined as “a high opinion of your own qualities or abilities, especially one that is not justified.” And there’s the rub, right? When we’re young, we’re worried about our qualities and abilities. We fear that our qualities and abilities are inadequate for the pastoring task. Which means we crave confident assurance that we’re wrong about our fears regarding ourselves.
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