How is life and ministry going at your church?
Are you grateful for your job and do you love what you do?
Or are you considering a change?
Transitioning from one church to another is one of the most difficult decisions any leader can make. How do you make that decision?
It’s tough to know when and how to leave.
Waiting too long or until the circumstances are so unhealthy you feel you must escape, or a potential termination is pending, are tough situations. In cases like these, its best to move quickly through a series of mature conversations that lead to a mutually honoring and agreed upon resignation scenario. The hopeful result would be in the best interest of the church and your best interest as well. If it isn’t mutually beneficial, it eventually turns negative and people are hurt.
The purpose of this post, however, is not to deal with those difficult situations, but to focus on the more common transition from a good church to another good church.
This more common circumstance is less painful and more hopeful, but surprisingly still complicated.
Leaving a church team always includes some sense of loss even with a hopeful future in front of you. What is the best way to make a transition?
It’s important that you are as spiritual prepared as you are mentally and emotionally to make a change. Specifically, what is God saying to you?
This post provides a series of questions to help you process what God is saying to you, leave or stay? And if it’s leave, how to leave in the right way.
7 Questions to Help You Discern if It’s Time to Leave:
(Okay, there are way more than seven.)
