Prepare to Commence

I attended the seminary's commencement last night. It was a lovely evening, minus a few mosquitoes. {Warning: Old curmudgeon griping ahead} I didn't, however, like too much the whooping and hollering for graduates as their name was read. A cheer here or there for a job well done will suffice, but please, people, this is an institution of highest learning for our church, not a racuous party high school. A little decorum is called for! {End Old curmedgeon griping}
That's not the point I'd like to point out here, though. I would like to offer a rebuttal to the commencement speaker. Okay, not a rebuttal so much as a commentary on the commentator. He was not the most dynamic person I'd ever heard, but he does the buisness and stock report on the radio. . .
All kidding aside, he had a message plain and simple. All pastoral types should take note and learn. You are the pastor. You have the knowledge. Your people are the people on the front lines of the workaday world. Teach them. Teach them well. If they don't learn from you, they'll learn from somewhere else; however, that somewhere else may not be true, right, or good.
It all comes down to this: We have our vocations, and we need to do them. Pastors, please help us do our vocation by doing your own.