Carson Reed usually is slow to use the word “crisis” to describe a situation, “but it may well be apt for our day,” he writes in the Mosaic blog hosted by the Siburt Institute for Church Ministry, where he serves as director.

“In addition to the many churches that are in decline, something else that we are observing is a sheer lack of persons to serve as ministers in our churches.

Click here to read Ministers in Short Supply by Carson Reed