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When Pastors Head for the Exits

Jan 22, 2022

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Pastors Are Disrupted in Their Expectations of What It Means

05:48

The Ultimate Metrics of a Pastor, Is Ru Helping People Be Transformed

05:37

What Is the Gospel?

03:38

Introduction

5min

The Emerging Church

3min

Social Justice and Racial Justice

4min

Burn Out - When Your Expectations of Your Job Are Geting Crushed

3min

Pastoral Disruption - The Story of a Former Senior Pastor

4min

What Is the Gospel?

4min

Pastors Are Disrupted in Their Expectations of What It Means

6min

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

6min

Pastors Are Losing Membership

3min

10.

Do People Read What I Write?

3min

11.

Getting Butts in the Seats

2min

12.

The Ultimate Metrics of a Pastor, Is Ru Helping People Be Transformed

6min

13.

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

6min

14.

Is There a Law of Polarization in the Church?

3min

15.

The Butts in the Seats

1min

16.

Redeeming Babbles - A Small Group Approach to Spiritual Formation

5min

17.

Pastoring Smaller Churches

2min

18.

We're Never Going, You Know, We Want More People to Know Jesus Christ

2min

19.

I Read Everything. I Also Forward Everything to Curtis and Chris. Amen.

3min

Why are so many pastors considering leaving the ministry? Is it the pandemic? Is it the political and racial polarization? Is it something else? Join David and Curtis as they delve into the growing crisis of pastoral burnout, including a very personal story from Curtis about his own journey to becoming a “former senior pastor”.

Show Notes:

-Barna Group - 38% of U.S. Pastors Have Thought About Quitting Full-Time Ministry in the Past Year

-Michelle Boorstein - The first Christmas as a layperson: Burned out by the pandemic, many clergy quit in the past year

-Kate Shellnutt - The Pastors Aren’t All Right: 38% Consider Leaving Ministry

-Barna Group - The Mental & Emotional Health of Pastors and Their Congregants Amid COVID-19

-Wendy Wang and Alysse Elhage - Here’s Who Stopped Going to Church During the Pandemic

-The French Press - The Crisis of Christian Celebrity

-Cass Sunstein - The Law of Group Polarization