Second, pastors need to be mindful of what they are implying about the men and women they serve when they complain about their jobs.
No one appreciates feeling like a burden to others. So pastors who appear exhausted by their job may find a congregation less and less willing to bring forward valid cares and concerns.
Third, pastors who continually complain about the difficulty of their job set poor examples for how Christians ought to approach work as a whole.
Vocational crises often result from a faulty theology of work. We elevate the quest to discover the perfectly fulfilling career above all other purposes of labor, such as fulfilling duty to family or accumulating resources to help expand Christ’s kingdom.
Pastors who portray only the hardships of their jobs may tend to mirror or enhance the vocational anxiety in their parishioners.
The apostle Paul explains to Timothy that those who aspire to become overseers desire a noble task.
May we as pastors handle this vocation with the upmost nobility, working hard in our daily tasks while modeling with dutiful and joyful obedience to the Lord the simplicity of the pastoral life.
