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Secrets of Staying Power: Overcoming the Discouragements of Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

When the going gets tough. Every minister faces moments when the pressures of the pastorate seem overwhelming. Discouragement sets in. Is it time to leave this church? Or ministry altogether? How do I keep going? A pastor wrote LEADERSHIP JOURNAL recently: “How do you deal with yourself, when you suddenly say within, I quit, and yet must keep going as a public leader? The inner resources of...

that holds two hundred and seeing three people. That’s a real downer, especially if you think the others are staying away from you. “But one thing that helped me,” he continues, “was hearing Garrison Keillor on ‘Prairie Home Companion.’ He was talking about a small town, and he said its motto was ‘We are what we are.’ That phrase stuck with me as I came to this church. I decided I was going to love what we were. Not that we don’t want to grow, but on a Sunday morning when the people gather,
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