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Doug Brouwer
Doug Brouwer is the pastor of the International Protestant Church of Zürich, Switzerland. His blog is part of the CCblogs network.
Is ministry a career?
I started with the best of intentions. We all did.
My seminary classmates and I absorbed a great deal of advice from—where else?—an older generation of pastors, and then we did our best to follow that advice, working long hours, honing our pastoral skills, sometimes even receiving additional and impressive-sounding degrees.
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