March 2, 2008
I Want to Be Like Them
By LeRoy Lawson It happens too often. Some minister, usually still fairly inexperienced, leaves the ministry because of certain elders he has worked with. My story is just the opposite. I have survived a lifetime as a pastor for the same reason””certain elders I have worked with. My appreciation for some very influential elders begins each day even before I leave home. I look at them on the wall of my study, in my ordination picture. I am there in the middle of them, a slight, kneeling, nervous youth. They are laying their hands on me as a sacred act
