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Maybe you’ve notice that pastoring seems to be a near occaision to mainline anxiety.  I’ve been battling anxiety for the past year myself, thank you, but I seem to be on the mend.  Thanks in no small part to the best book on leadership I’ve read in years: A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman.  Stop, drop, and read this book if you are a young pastor battling anxiety.
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This is what I’ve learned to love about my hometown. Coming out of the Little Caesar’s Pizzeria with my hot & ready, and there in the parking lot is a lady–soccer mom kind of look–stepping into her Volvo with a bumper sticker, just one, carefully placed, black background, white letters: i’m already against the next war. I could drive through other cities, maybe even states and never find a bumper sticker like that. And I could drive through yet other cities and yet other states and find ‘em pretty easily. Places are particular. And if you happen to be a pastor in a particular place–which I personally think is the best kind of pastor to be rather than a roving one–it’s good, I think, to learn to love the particularities of your city. Even if maybe there are things about those particularities that rankle, I think it’s a good discipline to talk yourself into seeing the best in those things.
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