Passion

There are many reasons pastors lose their passion for ministry. We face challenges that threaten to overwhelm us, people who oppose what we are doing, frustration due to a lack of immediate results, fatigue, a sense of loneliness in ministry, and the various pressures that go along with ministry. However, those by themselves are not enough to rob us of passion. Andrew Blackwood once wrote, "In pastoral work the most serious obstacles lie within a man's soul." It is not the problems themselves that take away our passion, it is how we choose to respond to those problems.