Hi you guys,
Trust you are enjoying the gifts of God in preaching, counseling, leadership.
I would like to offer you a free assessment for relationship, finances, and Post Traumatic Stress, i.e. fear.
The average pastor has a 4 year tenure. This means that by month 24 the pastor is calculating an exit strategy from the pain of his congregation and leadership. With regret however, this process tends to repeat if not for the worse.
I wish to give you a gift, a profile of your relationship wiring, money, and fear. Contact me and I will assess you for no fee. You will have after one hour a comprehensive report on how you relate to people, finances, and fear and therefore how to pray and attend to your family, your emotional and spiritual health, and the next board meeting where someone melts down about money.
Here’s what we will do:
The arousal template is a cutting edge tool for understanding the relationship neuro path ways which wired between the ages of 5-8 influencing your ministry and family relationships today. I will show you how to pray, and attend to this story.
The Money and Work Adaptive Style Index measures for 16 different problematic financial neuro pathways from workaholism, spending, to debting.
The Post Traumatic Stress Index measures 11 different ways the brain wires for fear. Do you have nightmares? Startle easily? Trust is difficult? Do you avoid friendships?
The Neurological wiring assessment will graph for you 6 different neurological structures which can cause your ministry to fail.
May I be personal for a moment? How is intimacy with your spouse? I can assist you with sexuality as well…confidentially of course.
Interested? Is there a catch? Nope. I love the work you do. My passion is to assist you so that the transitional energies to leave your ministry become transformational truths enriching your relationship with God, your family, and the people you love.
Reaching out is difficult…I know. What if you can make it through the drama of working with people to the depth of loving God, knowing yourself, and succeeding as a spouse, parent, and friend?
Contact today. No fee. Of. Course. Below are some stats you may identify with on some level.
Leader Support
The majority of Americans no longer rate pastors and religious leaders’ honesty and ethical standards highly. A Gallup poll released earlier this week reveals that for the first time since the question was introduced in 1977, trust in clergy has dropped below 50 percent.
Gallup attributed the decline of trust in religious leaders on scandals.
“If views of a certain profession have changed, it usually has been a function of scandal surrounding it. The Catholic priest abuse stories from the early 2000s helped lead to a sharp drop in Americans’ ratings of clergy, a decline from which the profession has yet to fully recover,” Art Swift, Gallup’s managing editor wrote.
The burnout statistics listed below come from George Barna’s book, Today’s Pastors.
- 96% are married
- 80% have a bachelors degree and half have a master’s degree placing the pastorate among the most educated professions – but among the lowest paid as well
- The average length of a pastorate is about four years
- The median pastor salary is about $32,000 a year including housing allowance and other benefits, while the national average among married couples (1991) was nearly $40,000
- 24% of the American population is 50 or older but 51% of church attenders are at least 50 years old
- 40% of church attenders read the bible during the week
- 30% of congregants would seek help from their pastor during a difficult time in their lives
- 53% of pastors believe that the church is showing little positive impact on the world around them
- 60% of pastors believe that church ministry has negatively impacted their passion for church work
- 51% of pastors expect that the average attendance at their church will increase by at least 10% in the coming year (this perhaps relates to unrealistic expectations)
- Four percent of senior pastors have a clear vision for their church
Why Pastors Leave the Ministry
by Fuller Institute, George Barna and Pastoral Care Inc.
* 90% of the pastors report working between 55 to 75 hours per week.
* 80% believe pastoral ministry has negatively affected their families. Many pastor’s children do not attend church now because of what the church has done to their parents.
* 33% state that being in the ministry is an outright hazard to their family.
* 75% report significant stress-related crisis at least once in their ministry.
* 90% feel they are inadequately trained to cope with the ministry demands.
* 50% feel unable to meet the demands of the job.
* 70% say they have a lower self-image now than when they first started.
* 70% do not have someone they consider a close friend.
* 40% report serious conflict with a parishioner at least once a month.
* 33% confess having involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with someone in the church .
* 50% have considered leaving the ministry in the last months.
* 50% of the ministers starting out will not last 5 years.
* 1 out of every 10 ministers will actually retire as a minister in some form.
* 94% of clergy families feel the pressures of the pastor’s ministry.
* 66% of church members expect a minister and family to live at a higher moral standard than themselves.
* Moral values of a Christian is no different than those who consider themselves as non-Christians.
* The average American will tell 23 lies a day.
* The profession of “Pastor” is near the bottom of a survey of the most-respected professions, just above “car salesman”.
* Over 4,000 churches closed in America last year.
* Over 1,700 pastors left the ministry every month last year.
* Over 1,300 pastors were terminated by the local church each month , many without cause.
* Over 3,500 people a day left the church last year.
* Many denominations report an “empty pulpit crisis”. They cannot find ministers willing to fill positions.
#1 reason pastors leave the ministry – Church people are not willing to go the same direction and goal of the pastor. Pastor’s believe God wants them to go in one direction but the people are not willing to follow or change.
Statistics provided by The Fuller Institute, George Barna, and Pastoral Care Inc.
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