11 Secrets Your Pastor is Keeping From You

Pastor's Secrets

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If you need to criticize your minister for something, please just be aware of this. Tread carefully, and with a lot of love and appreciation for her vulnerability. We are not above correction. Nobody is. But please make the extra effort to wrap it in as much care as you can.

11. We care about you more than you can imagine. 

Here’s one of your pastor’s secrets that is wonderful to share. The best moments of being a pastor for me, by far, were the times the ministers would gather for staff meetings and talk about the week ahead.

Did we discuss worship and youth outings and air conditioning and budgets? Sure, for maybe 20 minutes.

And then for three hours we’d talk about the people we were serving, what’s going on in their lives, and how we might help them.

I always wished the whole church could be in those meetings and just see how much these people care, how much their hearts break for them, how much time and emotional energy they spend wanting to help them.

Those meetings are my most sacred memories of church, because those were the moments when I saw men and women who had every reason not to care, to phone it in, to even be resentful. And yet, in spite of all of it, at the end of every day, they still cared, sometimes to the point of tears.

You might have no idea how much.

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Mark Lovehttp://marklovefurniture.com/blog
Mark Love is a furniture maker and former minister living in Wimberley, Texas. He grew up a preacher's kid, had several uncles and cousins who were ministers, and got two degrees in theology. After several years serving a church, however, Mark decided to quit and pursue a different career. Many of his close friends are still in the ministry, and Mark maintains a great deal of affection for those who do that difficult work.

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