Pastoral Ministry

3 Places Pastors Can (and Should) Find Friends

“Around 1 in 8 Protestant pastors (12 percent) believe Christians can speed up the second coming of Jesus by supporting geopolitical changes mentioned in the Bible, with 5 percent strongly agreeing. Four in 5 pastors (80 percent) don’t believe their support will have an impact on the timetable of Christ’s return” - BPNews

“Barely half consider clergy to be trustworthy, and only slightly more regard them as ‘honest and intelligent.’ Remember these are people who attend church at least once a month! Among those who seldom or never attend church, the respective numbers on those questions are 23 and 30 percent. The obvious question is why?” - BreakPoint

How Many Pastors Did NT Churches Have?

And Now, the Star of the Show….

“We’ve all heard, and perhaps shared, these ‘staggering’ scary stats about pastors who leave the ministry every month. The truth is sometimes worse than myth, but fortunately not in this case.” - Facts & Trends

“For starters, there’s oversharing. We’re hardly meant, as ambassadors of Christ, to talk about ourselves all the time. Also, not everyone in the church needs to know about everything you struggle with.” - TGC

“While the following points can easily be applied to those outside of vocational pastoral ministry, I want to specifically address how the Imposter Syndrome is directly affecting the state of pastors today.” - C. Today

“Barna released research on Tuesday which found that 50 percent of surveyed pastors felt either ‘frequently’ or ‘occasionally’ limited in their ability to speak out on certain issues, with respondents being more likely to identify those within the church as the reason.” - CPost

“What leadership virtue are we mistaking bullying for? Which trait is such a priority that we aren’t even aware when it is deployed in an ungodly, and biblically prohibited, way? In short, why do we end up with bullies as prominent pastors?” - TGC