Podcast Episode #367
Pastors often come seeking advice. Today, we cover ten of the most frequent requests we get.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- Don’t focus on critics.
- When you avoid tough personnel decisions, the decisions won’t get any easier to make.
- Ignoring staff tension will eventually hurt the entire church.
- Attacking your pastor or church staff on social media is cowardly and weak.
- What gets calendared gets done.
- You don’t leave problems when you change churches. The problems just get different names.
- Accept lows as a normal part of a ministry cycle, but know that highs are coming.
- Life in ministry is too short not to have fun.
The 10 pieces of pastoral advice we cover in this episode are:
- Love your members unconditionally.
- Don’t focus on your critics.
- Make the tough personnel decisions sooner rather than later.
- Accept that you won’t be loved by everyone.
- Put those things on your calendar that you often neglect.
- Accept the lows of ministry as normal.
- Don’t compare your church to others.
- Learn to be content.
- Learn to rejoice always.
- Have fun.
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