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Revitalizing Your Ministry: How the Wheel of Life Can Help Preachers Thrive in Their Work (A Guest Post)

Revitalizing Your Ministry: How the Wheel of Life Can Help Preachers Thrive in Their Work (A Guest Post)

If you were thriving in your preaching life, how would you know? I define thriving as feeling a sense of vitality, confidence and peace despite whatever might be swirling around me. And that means bringing life into balance so that ministry does not swallow up the other meaningful and necessary elements of a vibrant existence. The Wheel of Life helps us quickly diagnose where life may be out of balance so we can make conscious choices to shift our attention and energy for a thriving ministry AND preacher.

How do you avoid the pitfalls of assumptions in a new call? Good questions.

How do you avoid the pitfalls of assumptions in a new call? Good questions.

We've probably all stepped on a congregational preaching "no-no" without realizing it. We thought we were just doing our jobs and didn't realize we didn't know what we didn't know until we fielded angry reactions to our sermon. A little knowledge can go a long way, and today's blog offers questions every preacher can ask to unearth the unspoken expectations of a congregation, particularly when discerning a new call.