{"id":44807,"date":"2014-06-27T14:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faithstreet_j-r-_briggs-why_do_half_of_all_pastors_want_to_quit_their_jobs\/"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T14:40:31","slug":"faithstreet_j-r-_briggs-why_do_half_of_all_pastors_want_to_quit_their_jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44807","title":{"rendered":"(Faithstreet) J.R. Briggs&#8211;Why Do Half of All Pastors Want to Quit Their Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I share these [sobering] statistics [on the discontent and discouragement among parish minsiters and their families] with pastors, they slowly, knowingly nod their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when I share these statistics with non-clergy, they are shocked: \u201cHow can this be? I had no idea!\u201d\u009d A widespread Super Pastor mentality has led us to believe that pastors never struggle, never doubt, never get discouraged, and never wrestle with feelings of failure \u201d\u201d just because they\u2019re pastors.<br \/>\nRead more in Briggs&#8217; recent book Fail.Read more in J.R. Briggs\u2019 latest book.<\/p>\n<p>But pastors are people, too. Ministry is a significant calling and it is involves broken, sinful, and scandalously ordinary people God calls and uses to shepherd souls. These broken ordinaries are called pastors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithstreet.com\/onfaith\/2014\/06\/25\/why-half-of-all-pastors-want-to-quit-their-jobs\/32683\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I share these [sobering] statistics [on the discontent and discouragement among parish minsiters and their families] with pastors, they slowly, knowingly nod their heads. Yet when I share these statistics with non-clergy, they are shocked: \u201cHow can this be?<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44807\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,209,149,104,597,435,184,177,129,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}