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https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/ordinary-elders-part-2  

https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/ordinary-elders-part-1  

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/narcissism-pastors-moral-failures/  

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/political-division/  

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/breakfast-of-pastors  

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/yes-pastors-should-have-friends-church/  

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/learn-go-send-pray  

" Thank You, Pastors MAY 18, 2020   |   JEN POLLOCK MICHEL In my Toronto neighborhood every evening, people stand on their front porches, banging pots and pans in celebration of frontline health-care workers. Sidewalks are chalked with rainbows and chirpy messages of gratitude: “Thank you, essential workers!” These gestures, in a global pandemic, feel absolutely right. And yet, there is another group I want to thank. Besides the bus drivers and grocery-store employees, besides the doctors and nurses, besides the daycare workers and teachers, I want to thank the pastors. Now that pastoring and preaching have gone digital, I worry for pastors. I worry for them as they stand in their houses, preaching the Scriptures to empty rooms. I worry for their weariness, for their own discouragement and isolation. Even as certain parts of the economy have begun opening, it’s unclear how long the church will remain scattered, and I worry pastors will forget how much their work matt...

Pastors are in the most dangerous ... "Dr. Richard J. Krecjir, in a study performed for the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development, found that pastors are in the most dangerous occupation because of the high percentage of those who burn out, experience conflict, and are I'll equipped.   Some 89 percent of the pastors surveyed in Reformed and evangelical churches said they had considered leaving the ministry at one time or another, while 57 percent of that number would have forsaken the pastoral call if a better opportunity had presented itself."   (Robert D. Stuart, "CHURCH REVITALIZATION FROM THE INSIDE OUT")