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Why We Stay in Ministry

Randall R. Greenwald
Nov 01, 2021
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Why Stay?

Eugene Peterson once noted that the pastoral calling

. . . is a kind of messiness, a lot of stumbling around, fumbling the ball, losing my way, and then finding it again.1

As one who is quite skilled at this “ball fumbling” thing, I appreciate hearing such words.

Some pastors, however, find themselves in churches less tolerant of honest “stumblin…

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