Guest Post: The Difficulty of Being a Pastor

I want to re-introduce you to a pastor friend of mine. Phillip Slaughter is the pastor at First Baptist Church in Mansfield, Arkansas. You can read more about his faith journey in this series of posts. 

He posted the following on Facebook, and after I read it and nodded my head throughout it, I contacted him and asked if I could repost it here:

[image error]I’m pretty open about my struggles and insecurities. I enjoy life, and I enjoy my job, but sometimes things get really difficult. I have no problem talking to my close friends (Brandon C. Massey, Michael Pettiette, Austin West, Brett Lee, BCM family, etc.) and the leaders at my church about these things. I’m not sharing this as a call for help. I give those all the time