It Hurts When people leave your church, it hurts. With this admission, I know some will say the emotional pain leaders experience during an exodus is tied to numerical decline. And numerical decline, some conclude, is indicative of poor leadership. Others hear of leaders experiencing hurt and believe the emotional response is fuelled by an …
It is so strange how we look for answers to distressing complexities, but sometimes, maybe often, when the answer arrives, it brings a time of deep sorrow. This current season of distressing complexity in my own life has done just that. We have been searching for an answer to the mysterious health decline and regression …