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Thursday
August 7, 2008

This Week

What wounds a pastor?

Gap between dreams & reality
often cause of pastors’ wounds

By Jennifer Harris & John Hall
Associated Baptist Press

Columbia, Mo. (ABP)—Wounds can cause ministers to question—or even abandon—their call to ministry. But what wounds a minister?

“There is a great deal of idealism wrapped up in a pastor’s desire to serve people through the church and to serve people in the church,” said Bob Perry, congregational health team leader for the Baptist General Convention of Missouri. “The reality usually doesn’t match.”





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