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How Pastors Should Deal With Mudslinging

The Pastor’s Family:

1. How does a pastor recognize when the mud is still present on his face when he comes home?

2. How does a pastor prevent tracking in mud all throughout the house and harming his family with it?

Pastors, I would encourage you to use these questions as we did: as merely a template to search your own heart about how you cope when your people criticize you.

Do you get sad? Angry? Hurt? 

What do you do with those feelings and how do you now deal with those throwing the mud and hitting others in the process?

What mud do you drag home with you, hoping your wife will clean the mud off for you? 

How we face these questions in a God-honoring way and with a gospel perspective will often determine our level of joy in the work and how long we will last in the ministry.