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Planting a Church without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it take to be a church planter or other ministry entrepreneur? Most leaders start out with passion, a sense of calling, and a focus on building ministry skills. Such things might get some results, but they are not enough to sustain a healthy ministry—or a healthy life. Beyond the vocational capacities every church planter needs, there’s a range of capabilities more difficult to measure...

At the same time, we have to recognize that without good boundaries, a pastor could easily spend all of their time and energy on this person. Consequently, other people and other responsibilities get neglected, we become frustrated, and eventually we might come to resent rather than shepherd this person. We need to exercise wisdom, lest over time we find ourselves worn out by the insatiability of this person’s needs, and like those before us, become exasperated with them. One of the worst things
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