The vocation of Christian ministry is one of the most complex and demanding of all leadership tasks. Ministry requires not just personal, spiritual, and theological foundations, but a wide range of individual and communal people skills. It brings wonderful encouragements but can also generate deep spiritual and emotional exhaustion. Ministry can stress family relationships and place pressure on friendships. These ordinary forms of support, often more easily available to others, are complicated in ministry by the places and times in which we are called to serve. And ministry also engages us in conflict. Our desire is to see the grace of God transform ourselves, our church communities and society around us. That challenge and change is not always welcome and there are real personal costs in leading others to become faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. We are painfully aware that not all find pathways through these pressures and stresses.
Tim Dyer – The Johnmark Extension
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