Amusing quotations from Vincent Cheung about the need to test the attitude of Seminary Graduates by giving them menial jobs. So true. His honesty is so "in-your-face" that it is humourous at times, but what he writes is true and important. I've "bold" the funny/outrageous bits.

From his article on Doctrine and obedience.

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“Some seminary graduates are very proud and stupid, and completely unworthy of ministry. Most cases are not even examples of “knowledge puffeth up” (1 Corinthians 8:1), but the belief that they have knowledge that puffs them up, since they really know very little. …

… Cleaning toilets ought to be a joy anyway – the stuff that you scrub off the toilet is much less stubborn and much more fragrant than many of the people that you are going to deal with in ministry. So if you can’t even handle toilets – and what you find in them – how are you going to handle people?" …

… If he thinks that he is too good for all of this (e.g. cleaning toilets), then he is no good to the ministry. If, fresh out of the seminary, he already thinks that he is some “man of God” that is too important to do anything other than preaching and writing, and to have people sit at his feet to hear his wisdom, then he is really a useless piece of trash, and he is so stupid that he doesn’t know it. …

… if he is too “holy” or educated to mob up vomit or scrub the toilet, then I don’t want him to even lick stamps for my church or ministry. He is not even good enough to be the speed bump on the church parking lot, and he can forget about being an elder or teacher. …

… the day that I consider myself too much of a “man of God” to scrub the church toilet is the day that I have become as a filthy toilet to God. …"

Of course Cheung does mention that “it is unbiblical to require a minister to do menial work as part of his regular duties (Acts 6:2), the point is that he should never consider himself above that kind of work”

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A well written article by Vincent Cheung. Every Christian should keep this in mind. The leader that makes it his ambition to have the largest church in town, be known as the greatest expositor in the world, or to be the lead-pastor in a church is not worthy of the ministry. He is nothing more than an idolator seeking his own interest rather than that of Christ (Phil 2:21). The Christian ministry is not like the corporate world where everyone tries to scale the corporate ladder; but one where we are all called to be slaves of Christ.

"Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor." - 1 Cor 10:24