Are Church Programs the Problem?

If I were  to eat a box of Twinkies each week, would you be surprised if I gained weight by the end of the year? I would think not. What would you think if someone shot and killed a teller in the midst of robbing a bank and then pleaded in court that the gun shot the...

A Cure for Pastor Burnout Part 3 of 3

Review So far in our mini-series we have seen that the cure for pastor burnout is to equip others in the church to do what God says they are already called to do: minister to one another (Eph. 4:15-16; Col 3:16-17). Everyone, not just the pastor, is a minister who is...

A Cure for Pastor Burnout Part 2 of 3

My last column ended with the question, “What does equipping look like?” In a word, it looks like, relationship. I wrote that a cure for pastor burnout was to equip more “ministers” to do the main work. What I’m talking about here are church members who are fully...

A Cure for Pastor Burnout Part 1 of 3

Do you change the oil in your car, mini-van, Porsche… or Maserati? I still change the oil in my 1999 Plymouth Grand Voyager and my 2003 Dodge Ram Van.  I guess that there’s so little that I feel capable of doing on my vans that changing the oil is something I can do...