Metro Apostolic Network

Why should attend a Gatekeepers Gathering?

Frank Duprée

Home Up How We Function

Because there is a Crisis in Leadership!

 

You are about to read stunning statistics about Ministers and their personal lives... Metro Apostolic Network is a part of the answer to these problems... Our Gatekeeper Gatherings are meetings where the Holy Spirit truly speaks to us and where Jesus is Lord!

Our "roundtable" discussions are always "on point" for today and the Men and Women of God who attend always testify that they have been refreshed. So we invite you to join us each month as we tackle the issues of Ministry and receive the fresh oil we need to face the challenges of today.

 

*     1,500 pastors leave the ministry each due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their church...

*     4,000 new churches begin each year, but over 7,000 churches will close...

*     50% of pastors’ marriages will end in divorce...

*     70% of pastors constantly fight depression...

*     80% of pastors and 84% of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged...

*     95% of pastors do not regularly pray with their spouse...

*     70% of pastors do not have a close friend, confidant or mentor and are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way to make a living...

*     80% of pastors surveyed spend less than 15 minutes a day in prayer...

*     70% only spend time studying the Word when they are preparing sermons...

*     Over 35% said they had an extra-marital affair since beginning their ministry...

*     80% of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first 5 years...

*     80% of pastors’ spouses feel their spouse is overworked...

*     80% of adult children of pastors have had to seek help for depression...

*     90% of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry...

*     85% said, their greatest problem is dealing with problem people, such as elders, deacons, worship leaders, worship teams, board members and associate pastors...

*     90% said the hardest thing about ministry is dealing with uncooperative people...

*     70% of pastors feel grossly underpaid...

*     80% of pastors’ wives feel left out and unappreciated by the church members...

*     90% said the ministry was completely different than they thought it would be before they entered ministry...

*     70% felt God called them to pastoral ministry before their ministry began, but after 3 years of ministry; only 50% still felt called...

*     80% of pastors’ spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.

*     80% of pastors’ wives fee pressured to do things and be something in the church that they really are not...

*     The majority of pastors’ wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage arid family was the day they entered the ministry...

If there was ever a time that Men and Women of God

need friends its NOW!

Don't miss the next Gatekeepers Gathering!

These statistics come from across Denominational lines and have been gleaned from various sources, such as Pastor to Pastor, Focus on the Family. Ministries Today, Charisma Magazine, TNT Ministries, and others.

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