Pastoral ministry in general and re-envisioning churches in particular can be very hard work. Often discouragement and disappointment lurk in the church’s hallways and boardrooms, especially in struggling ministries that are on the downside of the organizational growth curve. Add to this the fact that our Enemy incites persecution against Christ’s church and its pastors (Acts 8:1). Also spiritual warfare comes with the ministry territory, though we’re seldom aware of it (see Eph. 6:10–18 for how we are to arm ourselves against spiritual warfare).
Pastoral ministrty can be very discourafing disappinoting, subject to persecution, spirifual warfare
