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advice to young pastors: thick skin, tender heart needed
Skills, gifts, knowledge, passion, all pale in comparison to the emotional intelligence you’re going to need, young pastor. Of course, there are many other jobs with intense emotional demands–teaching, parenting, medicine, running a business–but this business is surely one of them. The emotional intelligence that’s needed involves the cultivation, simultaneously, of a thick skin along with a tender heart.
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