{"id":34105,"date":"2022-09-10T21:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-smart-pastors-fail\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T02:15:10","slug":"why-smart-pastors-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-smart-pastors-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Smart Pastors Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article&nbsp;at his blog, Charles Stone drew on the book <em>You&#8217;re in Charge&#8212;Now What<\/em> (by Thomas Neff and James Citrin) to adapt and identify destructive behaviors that can impact ministry leaders. Here are some of the 10 he cites:<\/p>\n<p>A pastor can fail if he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. sets expectations too high (by never meeting them) or too low (and thus disappointing high performing leaders in the church)<br \/>2. makes rash decisions or suffers from analysis paralysis<br \/>3. appears to have all the answers<br \/>4. ties his or her identity too closely to ministry success<br \/>5. fails to see reality (remember the fable &#8220;The Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes&#8221;)<br \/>6. squashes dissenting opinions<br \/>7. misses who really holds the power (just because power roles are written down somewhere does not mean they reflect who really holds the power)<\/p>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_container the_champ_horizontal_sharing' data-super-socializer-href=\"https:\/\/www.preaching.com\/articles\/why-smart-pastors-fail\/\">\n<div class='the_champ_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\">Share This On:<\/div>\n<div class=\"the_champ_sharing_ul\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style='clear:both'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent article&nbsp;at his blog, Charles Stone drew on the book You&#8217;re in Charge&#8212;Now What (by Thomas Neff and James Citrin) to adapt and identify destructive behaviors that can impact ministry leaders. Here are some of the 10 he cites: A pastor can fail if he&#8230; 1. sets expectations too high (by never meeting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/why-smart-pastors-fail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Smart Pastors Fail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}