By Ed Stetzer on Mar 27, 2025
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Ed Stetzer shares insights from a new study that reveals what pastors really think about the ministry.
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By Charles Stone on Aug 17, 2022
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“Two things you can’t avoid in ministry are…people late to the service and … church critics.” In this short post, I suggest 10 ways to handle the church critic.
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By Hal Seed on Aug 29, 2022
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You make a dozen decisions a day. How do you know what’s the right decision? What moves your church forward? What’s wasting time?
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By Thom Rainer on May 20, 2024
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“Is this valley I am going through normal for pastors?”
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By Joe Mckeever on Dec 14, 2023
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"Any pastor can tell you about it. Even when you do your best to serve God by ministering to His people, some church members are not going to forgive you. You didn’t do it their way, weren’t there when they called, didn’t jump at their bark." So how do you handle these kinds of situations?
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By Thomas C. Brown on Jul 30, 2022
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"He has not chosen the strong, but the weak. He has not recruited the mighty, but the frail. He has not selected those who think themselves capable and worthy, but those who know themselves deficient and disqualified apart from his cleansing, preserving, and empowering grace."
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By Charles Stone on Dec 1, 2023
Great ministry leaders keep their emotions in check. Unfortunately, when we don’t keep them in check, our emotional brain can hijack clear thinking and good leadership.
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By Thom Rainer on Oct 13, 2022
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"Words have meaning. And if church members start articulating words consistently, those words begin to reflect the priorities and passions of the church."
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By Carey Nieuwhof on May 18, 2024
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"If you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you know the challenge of trying to move the mission forward and handle the pastoral needs of a congregation at the same time. One of the most perplexing problems pastors and church leaders face is how to handle ‘pastoral emergencies’—the crises that come up in the lives of people that they look to you to help solve."
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By Charles Stone on Nov 29, 2023
Quitters never win and winners never quit was drilled into my mind at an early age. I believed it. I practiced it. I lived it. I only quit one thing in my life before age 18, my high school football team. I quit because I sat on the bench 99.976% of the time. Since, then, however, I’ve questioned the veracity of that phrase, as catchy as it may sound.
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