Avoiding ministry burnout

Wayne Cordeiro is Senior Pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii. His new book Leading on Empty: Refilling your Tank and Renewing your Passion is a look at ministry burnout from the perspective of a successful pastor who has walked the journey.

The chapter titles provide a good overview of the book:

1. When the needle points to empty
2. Forced to failure
3. Early warning signs
4. Solitary refinement
5. Finding the still waters
6. The new perspective
7. Seven lessons hard-learned
8. Finding the way back home
9. the intentional life
10. Finding solitude in sabbaticals

Read Josh Reich’s book review. Josh is Lead Pastor of Revolution Church in Tucson, Arizona.

Read a book review on Learnings @ Leadership Network blog.

Read One Prayer Interview with Wayne Cordeiro on Swerve, a leadership, technology, and innovation blog for pastors and church leaders.

Visit Wayne Cordeiro’s website MentoringLeaders.com.

Leading on Empty is also available on Kindle.

MINISTRY BURNOUT – CAUSES, CURES

Think you’ll be the ONE person in the ministry who can cheat burnout?

Building your public life while ignoring your private life WILL reap consequences. It happened to Anne Jackson. Now she writes about it in Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic.

Rockbridge Seminary students who completed the online seminary course “Practicing the Spiritual Disciplines” will see in Anne’s book more confirmation of how important the disciplines are, especially for the person ministering to others. 

• Subscribe to Anne’s blog, Flowerdust.net
• View Daryl Eldridge’s video interview with Anne
• Read Tony Morgan’s book review of Mad Cow Disease
• Webinar with Anne, Thursday 4/2/09, 9pm Central (no sign-up – just visit website at time of seminar)