” ‘Christians divorce at roughly the same rate as the world!’ It’s one of the most quoted stats by Christian leaders today. And it’s perhaps one of the most inaccurate.” – Glenn Stanton Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard a pastor, youth pastor, Sunday school teacher, or any Christian for that matter, say that the divorce rate for Christians is the same as the divorce rate for non-Christians?…
“Everyone is ministering to students of divorced families. No one is doing it well.” –Doug Fields When I first heard that statement it struck a chord in me. At first I thought, “Wow that was pretty bold.” The very next moment though I began to think, “But what if he’s right?”…
In my last post, I talked about how for me sometimes, the every day rush of ministry is easy, but family is the hard part. To make family a little easier, I’ve really had to be careful with my time. When I’ve got a handle on our time, MOST of the time, our family is full of joy instead of being full of crazies all trying not to kill one another.…
Family first. Ministry second. That’s my creed. I strive for that because I’ve seen far too many families torn a part because the ministry was put before the needs of the home were met. I don’t want my kids to grow up hating God because dad was always at church and never spending time with them.…
