the fears are gone

Last updated on: February 18, 2013 at 3:37 pm by David Hayward

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Sophia “Fearless” by nakedpastor David Hayward

I came across an old blog post, The Sum of All My Fears”. I realized, upon reading the list of 10 fears, that all of them were related to me being a pastor within the church. Take a look:

angering my superiors;
upsetting people in my church who can do damage;
being excommunicated;
losing these friends;
my family being hurt because of me;
our church closing down;
being unemployed;
being attacked and ridiculed by those within and outside of the church;
offending more people here than I help;
being wrong (truly a heretic) and leading people astray.

I left the ministry at that particular church, and left the church, in the spring of 2010. I’ve visited a few since then. But once I left the ministry, all of these fears disappeared. I’m not saying the answer for me was to leave the church. What I am saying though is that once I left the church, I realized that these fears were somehow nurtured by the church and its support of the professional ministry. In other words, these are the fears that accompany ministry.

Now I realize that they were as nothing. I wish I knew that then.

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