Discouragement is simply part of ministry. I don’t know a pastor or church leader who doesn’t occasionally struggle with discouragement.
“Discouragement is an occupational hazard of the Christian ministry,” said John
I’m well into the second half of my life. I’ve noticed that my heroes have changed from my early years in ministry. Qualities that used to look important now look repellant
Jack Miller was a pastor of a small church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seminary professor at Westminster Seminary near Philadelphia. He’d served for twenty years, and felt depressed and burned out.
I’ve had the same conversation a few times lately.
A pastor or church leader has a problem. I listen. As I hear about the problem, it becomes clear that it’s not
I’m convinced that most pastors live in a constant condition of low-grade discouragement. The work is never going as well as had been hoped. Progress is hard to measure, but failure is
