Perennial Pastoral Pitfalls

Today is Pastors Day at Resolve08. Today's article highlights 5 perennial pitfalls for the pastor. Here's an extract from the conclusion:

'There will be times—probably not a few—when you will be tempted to give up. (Plenty of ministers have given up because they just couldn’t stand it any longer.) When such times come you will need to reconfirm your call from God to the arduous task which belongs to you as a minister. This was Jeremiah’s experience too! He was so discouraged that he said “I will not make mention of Him, nor speak anymore in His name.” But as he wrestled with God and his own discouragement he found that he just couldn’t keep silent. Why? Because—as he said—“His word was in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones; I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.” It is my conviction that this will always be the number one need of every divinely called and commissioned minister of the Word of God. For, as the book of wisdom says you must “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life” (Pr. 4:23).'

Read the entire article here:http://opc.org/OS/html/V4/4c.html