Pastoral Sustainability

A Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart's Table

This week, I again invite you who are Substack readers to listen to another “Rainy Day Conversation around Greatheart’s Table.” These are audio interviews that I have with men and women who have insight on topics of concern to the Greatheart’s Table community. You can find some more explanation by revisiting this post.

Since these are audio interviews you will need to dial up the Greatheart’s Table podcast on Apple or on Spotify to hear them. I hope you will.

For this conversation I’ve invited two men with a great deal of pastoral experience (60+ years between them) to speak into the subject of sustaining pastors in ministry, to keep them from “sinning out, tapping out, or burning out” as one of the participants puts it. 

Mike Osborne has pastored several churches and is currently serving as the Dean of Students at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He also is serving as a field shepherd with Standing Stone Ministries, an outreach to struggling pastors. 

Paul Joiner, after having served with the campus ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), pastored a church outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Currently he is the Director of Pastoral Wellbeing with the PCA’s Geneva Benefits Group.

Though both men are ordained in the PCA, as am I, the topic is a broad one that touches pastors in every context. And though, obviously, this conversation only scratches the surface of this massive subject, there are nevertheless insights here that I know will be helpful to many. And hopefully, it will spark further conversation. 

I urge you to listen in to this conversation around Greatheart’s Table.