The Burned Out Pastor
Pastoral ministry often relies on the logic of achievement. The children’s ministry needs to grow. We need a new building project. The church needs a public response to some new political moment. And the pandemic has added even further burdens to our leaders. Pastors now need to have an opinion on epidemiology, infectious viruses, statistics, politics, the mark of the beast, and more besides. Congregations send them more and more data. Pastors take it in like a tunnel with a river flowing into it. An endless stream of information comes. And the pastor must react to everything or he will...