Over 50 per cent of church leaders leave the ministry. Let\u2019s look at another reason why. They love people, but can\u2019t handle the pressure.<\/i> We like to talk about the power of the New Testament church, but what about its problems? The church is made up of human beings, and human beings have unresolved issues. The New Testament church had: <\/p>\n
(1) Moral problems.<\/i> One man was sleeping with his stepmother, and nobody in the church seemed particularly upset about it (see 1 Corinthians 5:1\u20132). <\/p>\n
(2) Doctrinal problems.<\/i> Some Jewish converts thought the Gentile converts needed to be circumcised. The dispute became so heated that it almost split the church down the middle (see Acts 15). <\/p>\n
(3) Immaturity and \u2018personality-itis\u2019 problems.<\/i> Paul writes: \u2018I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly\u2014mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it\u2026 For since there is jealousy and quarrelling among you, are you not worldly?\u2026when one says, \u201cI follow Paul,\u201d and another, \u201cI follow Apollos,\u201d are you not mere human beings?\u2019<\/i> (1 Corinthians 3:1\u20134 NIV) He goes on to say, \u2018Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.\u2019<\/i> (2 Timothy 4:10 NKJV) Then he adds, \u2018Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil.\u2019<\/i> (2 Timothy 4:14 KJV) <\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a church leader here\u2019s the bottom line: if you can\u2019t feel the pain, you can\u2019t heal the pain!<\/i> Hidden in your everyday problems and people pressures, you\u2019ll find the wisdom to minister effectively. So don\u2019t get discouraged\u2014keep going!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over 50 per cent of church leaders leave the ministry. Let\u2019s look at another reason why. They love people, but can\u2019t handle the pressure. We like to talk about the power of the New Testament church, but what about its problems? The church is made up of human beings, and human beings have unresolved issues. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}