One thing for sure, we do not have to be falling all over ourselves looking for a preacher. I kinda pity the preacher having to fill the shoes of the men we have in the congregation. Bob Smith and Mike Kennedy are good speakers and also well versed in the scriptures. I kinda get the feeling that Joe is getting an itch to be a regular preacher. Some men see the need to attend college and take Bible courses or attend a preacher training school to prepare to preach but our men are already qualified to preach. 

The late brother Rex Turner, Sr. would often say to his preacher students "If you can keep from preaching, don't preach." What he was saying was, "unless your desire to preacher is so great you cannot keep from preaching, you do not need to be in the pulpit." Politicians speak of having a "fire in the belly" to be president. Without that "fire" or desire they will never make it. This may also be said about preachers.  

It also speaks well for the West Georgia congregation the way we continue to worship, work and serve in the absence of a full-time preacher. This is how it should be. God is blessing us!