Pastors are called and trained to fight. The type of fight is different fight. This is not a physical fight though it includes the physical world. This is not a argumentative or quarreling fight though it includes arguments and courageous "holding fast" to truth and love. They are led to fight for and against something, rather, someone. The "noble task" Paul tells Timothy is difficult because the world is broken and the pastoring people is not easy. Therefore, this is a unique fight that Paul commands the young pastor Timothy to do, "Fight the good fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12)."

These are the pastoral tasks for trained up pastors. There are several interpretations on 'tasks' or what a pastor 'does'. Sometimes the tyranny of the urgent takes over and leads the way (such as life phase, time, money, other life pressures), but pastors are trainers, otherwise known as equippers or shepherds. Metaphorically and naturally, shepherds equip sheep to live by training them primarily to trust the one they are to listen to. While training them to listen and believe, they also guide them practically through specifics. Therefore, pastors are to train or equip people to believe in the chief shepherd of God the Son, Jesus the Christ, to live and follow him in real life.

These are the biblical qualifications for Christian pastors, trained up to desire and fulfill the task of pastoring. Therefore, we establish who God the Father, Son, and Spirit is. Then we learn what Christian means. Then we learn what it means to be a Christian pastor. Without the fundamentals, we will be fundamentally off and become fundamentally weird and wrong.