{"id":263,"date":"2015-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/church-replanting\/resource\/revitalize-you\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:52:14","slug":"revitalize-you","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/church-replanting\/resource\/revitalize-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalize you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few months some prominent pastors have fallen: one to suicide, another to an affair. As a fellow Pastor my heart grieves and aches for the confusion, loss and pain felt by these men, their families, and the churches they served.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being a Pastor is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>With a depression rates greater than the general population, high job dissatisfaction, economic hardships, the inability to &ldquo;turn off&rdquo; or &ldquo;shut down&rdquo;, spiritual attack, betrayal by friends\/leaders and criticism from congregants or their own thoughts, some pastors are in a fight between life and death. Those who fall don&rsquo;t crash overnight&mdash;the spiral downward begins as a slow gradual slide.&nbsp; Symptoms of the slide might include: less time in personal prayer and bible reading, retreat and withdrawal from relationships, looking for a new ministry setting, inability to focus, insomnia, nurturing secret sin, lack of passion or vision, desiring a way out of ministry, and anger at God. A renewed church must have a regularly renewed leader. As a Replanter or revitalizer it is imperative that you are constantly renewed by the power of Jesus and grace of God.How can that happen?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rest in the finished work of Christ as an approved child of God<\/li>\n<li>Spend time in prayer and God&rsquo;s word regularly<\/li>\n<li>Meditate on the scriptures, memorize key passages and verses<\/li>\n<li>Pray the Psalms<\/li>\n<li>Journal<\/li>\n<li>Remind yourself that ministry is a marathon, not a sprint<\/li>\n<li>Adjust your definition of success to include more than numbers<\/li>\n<li>Get away: establish a day off and make it sacred&mdash;no church work, email or communication. Take a vacation or schedule a stay-cation<\/li>\n<li>Laugh often: become a gatherer of good humor<\/li>\n<li>Establish an exercise routine<\/li>\n<li>Eat healthy: establish a sustainable eating plan, not just a diet of deprivation<\/li>\n<li>Accept accountability&mdash;talk openly and honestly about your hurts, fears and temptations with others who love you enough to care, challenge and correct<\/li>\n<li>Get good Christian counseling, make it part of your regular pattern of self-care<\/li>\n<li>Have non-church, non-Christian friends<\/li>\n<li>Read regularly&mdash;especially the biographies or books of Pastors who are no longer with us but ran the race well<\/li>\n<li>Keep and update a &ldquo;blessings&rdquo; list or answered prayer list and review it often<\/li>\n<li>Get a dog&mdash;a dog is always happy to see you no matter what kind of day you had or sermon you preached<\/li>\n<li>Develop a hobby where progress and completion are clear&mdash;the work of a pastor is often difficult to measure or define<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t suffer in secret, alone or in silence. You are not alone. You have a band of brothers in other Pastors who know what it is like to be where you are, to feel what you feel.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you help? Call the confidential Pastoral Care Line at: 1.844.727.8671 or consider the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/pastor-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pastoral Support <\/a>resources&nbsp;available&nbsp;through the North American Mission Board<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few months some prominent pastors have fallen: one to suicide, another to an &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/church-replanting\/resource\/revitalize-you\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revitalize you<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":264,"template":"","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"channels":[],"topics":[57,62,53],"languages":[],"class_list":["post-263","resource","type-resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource_type-article","topics-leadership-replanting","topics-pastoral-care","topics-replanting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Revitalize you - Church Replanting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.namb.net\/church-replanting\/resource\/revitalize-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Revitalize you\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the past few months some prominent pastors have fallen: one to suicide, another to an &hellip; 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