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Crushed: The Perilous Journey called Ministry
The overall objective of this book is to help us learn to understand what a pastor and his/her family go through on the ministry road. Ministry can be an extremely joyful time with the transforming work of Christ in peoples lives, but it can be a very sad and painful time with critical elders, laymen that are not satisfied, and those who gossip and meddle because their feelings are hurt or the pastor did not meet their expectations. The pastor and his wife build walls because they are afraid of the hurtful words and unexpected painful conversations. Their kids are affected by the pain and sometimes walk away from the Lord. Finally, they leave the church (not because they want to) in a way quite similar to a divorce, sad that they aren’t a part of the body to which God had connected them, empty, wounded and sometimes abused.