A: List the 5 biggest challenges to a pastor’s sanity.
- Excessive need to please
- Inability to handle conflict
- Takes criticism too personally
- Not skilled in managing one’s time
- Failure to keep strong spiritual discipline.
- Buy in to society[s definition of success
- Too dependent on other people’s op-inions
- Lack of training in management skills
- Lone ranger concept of ministry
- Stress of family relationships.
- Other __________________________________
List top four resources that would best assist judicatories and churches in caring for Clergy
- Good policies on Boundaries
- Access to skilled consultants on church management
- Good plan on how to keep in contact with clergy
- Ways to educate the congregation on clergy care
- Ideas on how to strengthen colleague-ship among clergy
- Plans to nurture clergy spirituality
- Building more joy into presbytery gatherings
- How to respond to disillusioned clergy
- Ways to confront clergy abuse
- Other __________________________________________
Name two important questions that no one seems to be asking about church and ministry these days but should be.
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