12 Ways Pastors Help Their Kids Hate Church…
- Always ask how something might impact your ministry before asking how it might impact your family.
- Move to a new church every couple of years.
- Consider unscheduled phone calls or visits from church members as divine interruptions, but unscheduled phone calls or visits from your children as disrespectful intrusions.
- Never remove your pastor hat to wear your parent hat.
- Attend out of town conferences at prime locations but never have enough time for family vacations.
- Miss ballgames and concerts to attend church stuff that you scheduled.
- Don’t protect them from unfair and unrealistic church member expectations.
- Have a different spiritual persona at church than you have at home.
- Use them as sermon or teaching illustrations without their permission.
- Express your disappointment or embarrassment when they act like regular kids.
- Never show them affection at church.
- Expect them to have the same passion for your calling as you do.
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