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29 September, 2009

Disappointing (& scary) statistics

Some statistics gathered about 2 years ago from Focus on the Family and Ministries Today etc have revealed 1 single scary phenomenon - pastors and pastors' families are at grave risk. Thanks to a tweet of Dr. John A. McGinn.

Here are just some of them:
- 50% of pastors' marriages end in divorce
- 70% of pastors continually battle depression
- 70% of pastors only study God's word when preparing a message
- Nearly 40% of pastors have had an extra-marital sexual affair since entering ministry

... ... ... the list goes on

After reading just some of these stats, how do you feel?


For more statistics, please see the original post here ("Interesting Statistics about Pastors").

But what should we be doing? Complaining about the pastors' failures? Or praying for them?

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