Episode 178 - Ministry With One Hand Tied Behind Your Back

Today Dave Jacobs, from SmallChurchPastor.com joins us to have a conversation about doing ministry with one hand tied behind your back.

• Sometimes you have a difficult board, or staff member.
• Maybe there is an influential person in the church who opposes you.
• You might even fear losing your position if you speak your mind.
• Is your church opposed to change, from your perspective?
• How about church finances? Healthy, or not?
• Maybe you have health issues, or are entering a new stage in life.
• You might even have relationship struggles in your ministry or your family.

And so, in some of these instances, you have to do ministry, as it were, with one hand tied behind your back.

In this episode, Dave, Jonny, and Jeff try to encourage you to certainly do two things:

1. Pray. Call on the power of our heavenly Father. And,
2. Make a plan. Take action. Do something to move yourself forward, to make even a small bit of progress that will encourage you and give you hope.

As usual, this episode is generously flavored with personality and humor, and a HUGE dose of encouragement. 

Pastors ABSOLUTELY DO NOT ever get too much encouragement. So many pastors, truth be told, live with the needle more on the discouraged side, than the encouraged side.

Jonny and I (Jeff), want to make a difference in your life and ministry in that area - we want to provide MINISTRY ENCOURAGEMENT to pastors - especially pastors of smaller churches, churches of around 200, give or take a hundred or two!

Pastor, this might be a good episode to listen to with your husband or wife. Maybe on a longer drive, or when you are doing some house project together, or if you're wired for it - just sit down together and listen!

Then discuss, affirm one another, and pray.

Enjoy episode 178! It's our gift to you.