Accessing too much information

Being informed is highly overrated.  Clergy leaders study the trends and read every book on the church that is offered.  They attend the seminars offered to help clergy and church leaders envision and manage ministries more effectively.  The result in some cases is information overload.  (Gary Nelson)

Irrelevance

When a clergy leader feels irrelevant outside the walls of the church, such a leader will have more at stake in what happens inside.  One's identity, feelings of worth, and significance are placed on a narrow one-dimensional platform.  The result is a stark vulnerability not previously experienced in pastoral ministry, causing clergy leaders to put pressure on congregations to meet their needs for significance, needs that are emotionally and relationally unrealistic. - Gary Nelson

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