Changing the Pastoral Job Description

Pastors have impossible job descriptions and are expected to be super heroes. We think it’s time to change the pastor’s job description and get back to what the Bible says pastors should be doing. We are sick of pastors being unhealthy and quitting. We care about pastors and want them (and their families) to be healthy and happy. That’s why we are launching The Busy Podcast.

Show Notes

EPISODE ONE SHOW NOTES:

“The Why” of The Busy Pastor Podcast
Statistics behind pastor’s beings unhealthy (Hartford Institute, The Barna Group, Pew Research)

83% of clergy spouses want their spouse to leave pastoral ministry
90% of clergy in all denominations will not be in ministry by retirement age
90% of pastors report working 60 to 75-hours per week
80% of pastors think the church has negatively affected their families
70% of pastors don’t have any close friends
The profession of the pastor is at the bottom of a survey of respected occupations (right above car salesmen)
1,700 pastors left the ministry every month last year

QUOTES:

It’s time to get back to what the Bible says a pastor should be doing.
It’s time to change the pastor’s job description.
We want to be busy, but we want to be busy with the right things.
Pastors must change the way they are leading themselves, their families, and their churches.
Pastors are leading in ways where they are not gifted, and it is causing burnout, failure, and unhealthy churches.