Not many people see the importance of pastors until we are faced with life’s difficult circumstances. When faced with troubles, pastors are one of the first people we call to hear comforting words, seek advice, and receive prayers. And it is this group that has taken the brunt of the ongoing season of COVID and social unrest. Recently, a Baptist pastor shared a blog to let everyone know that the Great Resignation has befallen pastors as well.

While I know no one in my organization who is about to leave the ministry, nevertheless, in speaking to many of them, this season has taken its toll on them. One factor is that pastors, by the nature of their position as the leader of people who look to them for spiritual guidance, have, for that reason, experienced a high degree of vulnerability precisely because they no longer led during COVID and had no real answers when social unrest broke out.
So, as we have been slowly coming out of this season while still licking our wounds, I present this videoblog to present how we can get our pastors back on track, by way of pointing to what the church ultimately is in a larger society and what pastors are called to be in view of that.