Crash! The Home Built on Sand

Dr. Don Deel, the Mountain State Baptist Association Director of Missions, has uncovered some disturbing statistics in his doctoral dissertation research. As he wrote in his introduction, “These facts should cause a pastor, staff, wife and church to take notice."

• Eighty percent of pastors’ spouses feel their spouse is overworked.


• Eighty percent of pastors’ wives feel left out and unappreciated by the church members.


• Eighty percent of pastors’ spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.


• Eighty percent of pastors’ wives feel pressured to do things and be something in the church that they are really not.


• The majority of pastors’ wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.


• Eighty percent of adult children of pastors surveyed have had to seek professional help for depression.

Next Monday we will see statistics concerning pastors’ personal relationship with the Lord.

1 Peter 3:7