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advice to young pastors: leading in an age of anxiety
Here’s a myth about pastoring that will crush you if you mistake it for truth: when a pastor is doing his or her job, the church will be calm. Like any myth, this one endures because it distorts a truth: that good pastoring helps a church manage conflict, tension, and turmoil better than bad pastoring. (And that bad pastoring can generate enormous turmoil in a church.) The myth hides the reality that we pastor now in an age of very high anxiety, owing to a rapid pace of change all around us.
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