Crash Prevention—Covenant

While researching his doctoral thesis, Dr. Don Deel, the Mountain State Baptist Association Director of Missions, uncovered some disturbing statistics about pastors and the ministry. I reported those statistics in a series of posts.

Now for the good news. Dr. Deel has given ways to prevent the kind of crash described by those alarming statistics. He writes, “There are certain steps that we, as ministers, can and must do to help ourselves not only to survive in the ministry, but to excel in the ministry.” One of those steps is:

Enter into a covenant with another pastor. This should be a mutual, trusting relationship where you can openly talk and pray for each other, without fear that the other pastors will gossip about you. As ministers, many times our lives are very lonely. Finding others whom you can build relationships, will help alleviate the stress and loneliness of being a pastor.

Next Monday we will look at another prevention step.