Many think pastors only work one or two days a week, get lots of vacation time and enjoy the peace and contentment of constant intimacy with God. How is it possible to mess up a cush job like that? If you’re a pastor, you know better. Use the player options below to hear Steve Childers discuss the mistakes of a pooped pastor.
Steve Childers served as a pastor for 15 years. He’s now Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Doctoral Program at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando. Steve also serves as Director of the U.S. Center for Church Planting, Inc., an interdenominational ministry that provides training, consultants and resources for church planters and missionaries throughout the world.
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I was there for this conference and am thankful you saved the ‘basement tapes.’
Steve Childress, I only counted 7 mistakes!
Anyway, the last left me weeping; you see my father in law is doing what Robert McQuilken did and hearing that tape was almost too much to bear….as they say, “I get it.”
I myself am guilty of all 7 mistakes; honestly sometimes I want to take my wife and go sit on the beach; she works harder than me….our ministries have become everything and almost nothing is left to us…yep I get it, pride – but there is also a desire to use our gifts! I feel like I can’t leave our two churches who just joined the EPC to escape the apostasies of the PCUSA. I have honestly thought about what will happen after I am gone; will these little rural churches survive; I am certain they wouldn’t if they had stayed in the old denomination. But young Evangelical guys seem uninterested in the rural pastorate; or am I wrong?
So there.
John Stone