Recognizing Job Burnout Before It Breaks You as a Pastor
Dr. Christopher Rosik
Pouring yourself out week after week can leave you with a particular kind of exhaustion. Pastors know the weight of this exhaustion too well. It’s the weight of carrying others’ burdens and managing the demands of ministry that creates pressure, which builds quietly until something breaks. Job burnout among pastors has become a crisis that the church often overlooks. A recent Barna poll found that 24% of senior pastors in America have seriously considered leaving full-time ministry in the last year. Congregants too often assume that spiritual leaders are immune to the limits that affect everyone else. The calling to shepherd does not come with supernatural stamina, and it’s absurd...
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