Ministry Is Relationally Hard

ministry is relationally hard, not just because there's loneliness and sometimes abandonment on the inside, but there's opposition verbal on the outside. It's hard to be verbally assaulted even by people you expect it from. Every moment of unexpected silence from a friend and every verbal blow from an enemy wounds the spirit of the Christian and it happens a lot. The book ends with perhaps the saddest sentence in the paragraph or the book.