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# Why Young Pastors Leave the Ministry
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005112why-young-pastors-leave-the-ministry-html/
- Published: 2005-11-02T22:36:19.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:34:08.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Dying Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

*This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”*

At [Monday Morning Insight Weblog](http://www.mmiblog.com/monday%5Fmorning%5Finsight%5Fwe/2005/11/why%5Fyoung%5Fpasto.html?ref=dashhouse.com):

> Aside from the obvious reasons pastors leave the ministry (sexual impropriety, financial mismanagement, and marital dissolution) here are the top ten reasons why young pastors call it quits:

> 1\. The discontinuity between what they imagined ministry to be and what it actually is is too great.

> 2\. A life without weekends sucks.

> 3\. The pay is too low (most pastors in my denomination make less money than a school teacher with five years experience).

> 4\. They are tired of driving ten year old cars while their congregations trade in their cars every two years.

> 5\. Many young pastors are called into difficult congregations that chew pastors up and spit them out because experienced pastors know better.

> 6\. Even though the search committee told them they wanted to reach young people, they didn’t really mean it.

> 7\. When the pastor asked the search committee if they were an “emergent church”, the members of the search committee thought he said “divergent church” and agreed.

> 8\. Nobody told the young pastor that cleaning the toilets was part of the job description.

> 9\. The young pastor’s student loans came due and the amount of money he/she owes on a monthly basis exceeds his/her income.

> 10\. Working at McDonalds has alot less stress.

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