Church Leader Fatigue
Are you nearing leader fatigue? You would not be alone. You have the right to be tired, weary and fatigued.
Leading a congregation through transition — whatever season it is in — takes a toll that rarely gets talked about openly. In conversations with church leaders across the U.S., I keep hearing the same themes surface again and again.
1. Greater polarization and division
2. Weariness expanded
3. Decision fatigue growing
4. Hopelessness pervasive
5. Confusion about the path forward
6. Denominational structures destabilizing
7. Major personnel shifts in churches
Do any of these resonate with you? Like we need more reasons to be fatigued!
However, there is a consensus building in leadership conversations. Through the fatigue and fog is a shared conviction that we must push forward into a renewed future for churches. How do we rebuild for a new day? How do we ask the hard questions about church lifecycle stages? How does God want to use us in this season?
May God bless each of you in seasons of fatigue. Get some rest. Find ways to rejuvenate for the new day coming.
God, bless each leader reading today with a new hope of even greater kingdom service. Bring new people into the kingdom through our churches. Give us the satisfaction of clear-eyed assessment and decision-making about the future. We know you always find new ways to grow your church. Use us, Father. We pray in the name of Jesus, our Savior…Amen.
Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers (Galatians 6:9-10).
Blessings, Scott Lambert Heritage21 Board Member [email protected] 310-710-7677 Heritage21, 629 West Main Street, #10210, Oklahoma City, OK 73102 |
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