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07-19-2009, 06:13 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
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I think I would disagree with you. A person becomes a backslider in the pew....when they leave they've rejected Christ
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07-19-2009, 06:23 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
I wonder if Paul or Peter even took a month off.... 
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07-19-2009, 06:47 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
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I wonder if Paul or Peter even took a month off.... |
Paul took 3 whole years off at one point. Some kind of "retreat."
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07-19-2009, 06:47 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
How many of you are Preacher's Kids? Just curious...
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07-19-2009, 07:05 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
You know, the whole, "this pastoring thing is so stressful", I do find to be humorous, and when Prax mentioned Peter and Paul, I think he got it right on the money. Paul didn't just abandon an assembly that he started to take three months or three years off for vacation. Outside of the "second tithe", I can't really think of "vacations" in the Scripture, and for the last 200-300 years, since the Industrial Revolution, "vacations" are maybe 60 or 70 years old. I can not imagine my great-great grandparents working in the shoe mills here in Massachusetts having ever gone on a "vacation", maybe they got a Saturday off and piled their kids onto the back of a truck and went to the beach. We don't need vacations, they are nice to take once and a while, but some of the pastors I've seen are drama queens/divas. Yes, construction might be a good job for some of these "three month off" pastors, or working in a mill or sweat shop. A pastor should not get stressed out, because a pastor should not be alone in the assembly, there should be "elders in every city"- that "elders" there is plural...
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07-19-2009, 08:09 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
I was thinking of taking a three month break from my wife..... 
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07-19-2009, 10:21 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
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How many of you are Preacher's Kids? Just curious...
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I pastor, but I'm not a preachers kid.... three months from the kids.... there's a idea... wait, mine are all grown now...
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07-19-2009, 10:28 PM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
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My first pastor never took a vacation...to him campmeeting was a vacation or GCs...I think one time too he was given money to go on a vacation and he used the money instead for the church.
The church was his life.
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Many times those guys would have benefited greatly from some down time to recharge their batteries, get perspective on things, and spend time with their family.
There is such a thing as "diminishing return".
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07-20-2009, 10:17 AM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
I am not sure that having one pastor is scriptural anyway. Maybe it's just too much for one person.
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07-20-2009, 10:36 AM
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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
the reason a pastor would take 3 months off, let me see, saints, yeah that is it, lol
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