Here is a dropout rate churches don’t talk about?
"50% of pastors do not last 5 years & only 10% will retire as pastors.
Maybe we should talk about this?" (per @jaredcwilson)
I can think of three factors that contribute to this very sad statistic:
1) Many men who drop out of the ministry were never truly called to begin with.
Let's not make this first point more complicated than it needs to be. When the going gets tough, 'hired hands' typically find something easier to do. For some it means going back to school, working as a postman, or doing landscaping the rest of one's life. Anything other than the pastorate.
As the Shepherd par excellence, Jesus put it this way in John 10:11-13. "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. "He who is a hireling, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, beholds the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees, and the wolf snatches them, and scatters them. "He flees because he is a hireling, and is not concerned about the sheep.
