With COVID-19 mostly in our rearview mirror, the great church member reshuffle that followed the pandemic, racial unrest and the 2020 election have settled down, giving pastors a better sense of what their new “normal” looks like. Indeed, 2023 data from Barna Group shows pastors to be less distressed, more hopeful, more confident in their calling, and more satisfied with their ministry than just a year earlier. And, 2024 seems to have been less stressful for many pastors.
However, one significant area in which pastors still feel bruised by the events of 2020 is the sudden, hurtful and often unexplained departure of close friends from their church. This past year, pastors and ministry leaders studying healthy and spiritual leadership with me as part of their Wheaton College…
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