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The John Mark Solution
Coaching Pastors, Missionaries, and professional Christians in how to survive in ministry.
That we live in a day of stress resulting in burnout is no suprise considering the pressures we live in. Ministers and pastors, as well as other professional Christians live in constant jeoprady. Some organizations estimate the following statistics:
1. Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry every month due to moral failure,
spiritual burnout or contention in their churches.
2. Fifty percent of pastors' marriages will end in divorce.
3. Eighty percent of pastors and eighty-four percent of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
4. Fifty percent of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry or have left it and discovered that they don't know any other way to make a living.
5. Eighty percent of seminary and Bible school graduates
who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first few years.
6. Seventy percent of pastors constantly fight depression.
7. Almost forty percent polled said they have had an extra-marital affair
since beginning their ministry.
8. Seventy percent said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
Pastors' wives:
1. Eighty percent of pastors' spouses feel their spouse is overworked.
2. Eighty percent of pastors' spouses wish their spouse woul choose another profession.
3. The majority of pastors' wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occured in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.
So, there is a lot of pain out there.
Article: Hololulu Advisor: Pastors often succumb to job burnout... 11/18/2006
Christina Maslach, says that the indicators of burnout are:
(1) Decreased energy -'keeping up the speed' becomes increasingly difficult;
(2) feeling of failure in vocation;
(3) reduced sense of reward in return for pouring so much of self into the job or project;
(4) a sense of helplessness and inability to see a way out of problems; and
(5) cynicism and negativism about self, others, work and the world generally.
Her definition of burnout is 'a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion marked by physical depletion and chronic fatigue, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and by development of a negative self-concept and negative attitudes towards work, life and other people'.
If you are in any of these deparate straits,
please get in touch with me.
Coach Charles
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