Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Growing up the daughter of a pastor, Anne Jackson experienced firsthand the conflict, stress, and struggle church leaders often face. She vowed her life in ministry would be different.

Yet, years later, as a church leader, she was hospitalized because stress began wreaking havoc on her body. After being released from the hospital, an associate pastor asked her, 'Does working at this church interfere with your communion with Christ?' The question was aramount in turning her life around.

Thinking she wasn't alone, ...
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Overview

Growing up the daughter of a pastor, Anne Jackson experienced firsthand the conflict, stress, and struggle church leaders often face. She vowed her life in ministry would be different.

Yet, years later, as a church leader, she was hospitalized because stress began wreaking havoc on her body. After being released from the hospital, an associate pastor asked her, 'Does working at this church interfere with your communion with Christ?' The question was aramount in turning her life around.

Thinking she wasn't alone, Anne developed a website that allowed church leaders to share their struggles. Within a few days, she was flooded with over a thousand responses from people pouring out their stories of burnout.

Using anecdotal parallels between Mad Cow Disease and leadership trends in the church, she writes not only to help us realize what church leaders are facing, but also to provide practical and positive treatment plans.

Mad Church Disease is a lively, informative, and potentially life-saving resource for anyone in ministry---vocational or volunteer---who would like to understand, prevent, or treat the epidemic of burnout in church culture.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780310299738
  • Publisher: Zondervan
  • Publication date: 3/6/2009
  • Sold by: ZONDERVAN PUBLISHING - EBKS
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 420,908
  • File size: 7 MB

Meet the Author

Anne Jackson has published in a variety of print and online magazines, and her blog, FlowerDust.net, is ranked as one of the top blogs in Christian Leadership with hundreds of thousands of pageviews a month. She is an advocate for Compassion International, a down-to-earth communicator, and an all around dreamer. Anne has an unwavering passion to see the Church grow, thrive, and fulfill its purpose.

Table of Contents

Foreword Craig Groeschel Groeschel, Craig 9

How to Use This Book 11

Prologue: No Pity Parties Here 13

Introduction 15

Pt. I How the Burnout Epidemic is Killing the Greatest Call

1 Comparing Mad Cow Disease to Mad Church Disease 30

Second Opinion Bill Hybels Hybels, Bill 43

2 The Emergency 45

Second Opinion Perry Noble Noble, Perry 59

Pt. 2 Am I at Risk? Examining Risk Factors and Symptoms

3 Internal Risk Factors 63

4 External Risk Factors 73

Second Opinion Mile Foster Foster, Mile 92

5 Symptoms 94

Second Opinion Wayne Cordeiro Cordeiro, Wayne 100

Pt. 3 Getting Better

6 Five Principles of Recovery 104

Pt. 4 A Path to Health and Recovery

7 Spiritual Health 121

Second Opinion Matt Carter Carter, Matt 130

8 Physical Health 132

Second Opinion Shawn Wood Wood, Shawn 144

9 Emotional Health 146

Second Opinion Gary Kinnaman Kinnaman, Gary 153

10 Relational Health 156

Second Opinion Brandi Wilson Wilson, Brandi 163

11 Processing through Pain 166

Epilogue: Resting in an Abundant Life 177

Notes 185

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