you’re a good pastoral care person, people will often love you so much that the church will grow to two hundred people, at which point the pastoral care expectations become crushing. Inevitably, pastoral leaders with larger churches can’t keep up and end up disappointing people when they can’t get to every event anymore. Additionally, many burn out under the load. The pastoral care model creates many false and unsustainable expectations. Consequently, almost everyone (congregation and leaders) gets hurt in the process.2
