Thankfully I am not going through this but unfortunately I have talked to too many youth pastors who want to get out. I ran across this post from Tim Schmoyer and thought it gave 5 simple and logical reasons why pastors should stay in it.
1. Confidence in God’s calling on my life.
2. Knowing that the greatest rewards are often on the other side of the greatest trials.
3. What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.
4. Working with sinful people is always messy, of which I am the worst.
5. I know the enemy wants me out.
4 comments:
To #3 I say...hmmmmm. Do things really make you stronger?
We were just talking about this!
As to #3: This is a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche.
The only other quote I know of that is attributed to him is "God is dead." He believed that God was an invention of man to comfort us in things we couldn't understand. With the educational and technological advances that he was seeing, he believed that humans had no need for God anymore. That we had, in fact, killed God (our invention).
That said, I don't believe that what doesn't kill me makes me stronger is always true. Sometimes, it makes you weaker and leaves you with a limp...
To the two previous comments.
This quote makes me think of James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Trials = development of perseverance to make you mature and complete. Or in other words trials make you stronger.
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