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Aug. 19, 2019

Leaving the ministry for your wife's emotional health

Leaving the ministry for your wife's emotional health

I'm convinced there are MANY pastors who need to step out of pastoral ministry and get a secular job for the sake of their wive's spiritual and emotional health. 

The reason many pastors wives are spiritually and emotionally devastated is because people don't know how to honor them, lift their burdens and shower them with praise.

When people criticize their husband, gossip, scheme, resist, leave the church, stop giving financially or demand too much from him, it can absolutely crush her.

So, often the pastor must lay down his calling for the sake of his wife, or people need to start treating both of them much better.