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Pastors: Ministry Resilience Comes Through Weakness

‘The Clay Pot Conspiracy’ is a powerful reminder for church leaders that God’s grace is made perfect in our weakness.

As another calendar year came to an end, I took time to review the previous 12 months. There were many things to celebrate. Yet the list of the challenges and struggles our pastoral team had faced was long: physical exhaustion from the pace of life, the heavy needs of new believers coming out of dark backgrounds, spiritual warfare experienced by our children, increasing pressure on our church staff, the deaths of loved ones, and even a pastoral situation that required several arrests, a restraining order, and criminal charges.

The list left me feeling empty and fragile.