Burnt Out

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk ministerial burnout! It’s a relevant topic at the end of another marathon recording day as we squeeze our hosts for onnnnne more episode. Poor Todd, red-eyed and against his fragile will, did not leave the studio despite his many threats to do so. Just a Diva trapped inside a pipe-smoker’s body. In all seriousness, ministerial burnout can be lurking in the pulpit or present in the pew more often than we realize. The stats are alarming which demand we ask: Do we encourage those who shepherd us? Do we pray often (or even at all!) for them? Are our elders consumed by responsibilities or healthy and happy in their service? Free StuffWe are giving away copies of Christopher Ash's book "Zeal Without Burnout" this week! Click here to enter to win a copy!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.
0:25.6	Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:30.7	Let's join this week's conversation. All right, so it's been a long day of recordings here at the underground bunker, and I seem to be sitting now with two slugs.
0:54.9	Hey, I'm a slug.
0:56.4	He's emotionally fragile.
0:58.6	That tantrum we just witnessed was awesome.
1:01.0	I mean, Carl's got his glasses on now.
1:03.5	It's like he's aged throughout the day.
1:06.7	And so we thought, you know, maybe it would be good to discuss the topic of pastoral burnout.
1:13.1	Well, I feel burned out, so let's do this.
1:15.3	Okay, Carl, you seem to have a book with you that...
1:18.0	Yeah, I got a book by one of my favorite Christian authors, actually Christopher Ash.
1:21.6	Okay.
1:22.1	Just as a general pitch, if Christopher Ash writes it, you should probably read it.
1:27.0	Everything this man writes is clear to the point.
1:32.7	Even in those odd occasions when I disagree with him, I always learn something even through the act of disagreeing with him.
1:38.7	Oh, I love that.
1:39.2	He's a wonderful English Anglican pastor, and he's written some great material. We've talked about his book on Joe
1:46.3	on the show before. Here is his latest book, is Zeal Without Burnout, Seven Keys to a Lifelong
1:52.8	Ministry of Sustainable Sacrifice. We're not actually going to discuss this book today because he's
1:57.4	yet to produce out the pictorial version, so Todd has not been able to get access to it.
2:02.7	Indeed.
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