Surviving Ministry: How to Weather the Storms of Church Leadership

Being a pastor has its rewards and pleasures. But churches can be unsafe places. They are filled with broken, imperfect people. Many ministers of the gospel walk into a church naive about the potential hazards of their vocation. They are vulnerable to difficult people, unresolved conflict, incompatible visions, hidden agendas, mission drift, and sin—their own and that of others. Other pastors feel trapped in a ministry hurricane and don't know what to do. They feel like failures. They're th...