It Only Hurts on Monday: Why Pastors Quit and What You Can Do about It - Softcover

Gary L. McIntosh; Robert L. Edmondson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1889638021 ISBN 13: 9781889638027

Publisher: Churchsmart Resources, 1998

Synopsis

Pastors are quitting! Some leave for what they hope will be greener pastures in another church. Some drop out of ministry altogether. Why? The pressures of ministry are such that many pastors spend their days off simply trying to recover. When a fellow pastor was asked how thing were going in his ministry, his wry answer was 'It only hurts on Monday.'

Evidence suggests pastors are moving or dropping out at an increasing rate. The Barna Research Group found that the average pastorate twenty years ago was about seven years in length but had dropped by 1993 to about four years. The authors have researched over 60 ex-pastors and their churches to discover some of the causes of this crisis in pastoral leadership.

Topics include: burnout, professional isolation, inadequate education, unrealistic expectations, resistance to change, poor pastoral accountability, tight finances, personal loneliness, and spiritual warfare. Each chapter concludes with helpful and practical suggestions on what you can do to help your pastor have a longer and more fruitful ministry in your church.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary McIntosh is an experienced church consultant who has analyzed over 100 churches in some 53 denominations in the USA and Canada.
Robert Edmondson is a pastor in Brownsville, OR.

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchsmart Resources
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1889638021
• ISBN 13: 9781889638027
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173
• Editor: Kimberly Miller
• Illustrator: Julie Becker