{"id":2712,"date":"2021-12-04T20:41:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2021-12-04T20:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T02:49:53","slug":"why-pastors-are-joining-the-great-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/04\/why-pastors-are-joining-the-great-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Pastors Are Joining the Great Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This speaks to only the tip of the iceberg. It is a valid article that speaks to, all too many pastors and congregations. COVID 19 pandemic, only brought to the forefront, what has been a terrible non-passionate, non-disciple trend in the Christian church.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Follow this link to read more.<\/div>\n
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This speaks to only the tip of the iceberg. It is a valid article that speaks to, all too many pastors and congregations. COVID 19 pandemic, only brought to the forefront, what has been a terrible non-passionate, non-disciple trend in the Christian church. \u00a0 Follow this link to read more. https:\/\/sojo.net\/articles\/why-pastors-are-joining-great-resignation?fbclid=IwAR0MSZUumoaImg8Cr3DPcPEZ5XJcLnkTsNIStChyArFEP_A_uU0BIxAPKHM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,115,71,101,106,204,90,102,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dougd","4":"post-2712","6":"format-standard","7":"category-acceptance","8":"category-arrogance","9":"category-attitude","10":"category-change","11":"category-conflict","12":"category-conformity","13":"category-control","14":"category-god","15":"category-gospel"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-HK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2332,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/19\/pastor-burnout\/","url_meta":{"origin":2712,"position":0},"title":"Pastor Burnout","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"December 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"This report aired just before I went on KMEG today to promote our Christmas Sing Along and Christmas Eve Worship services at First Lutheran in South Sioux City NE. 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