Mask in hand : one pastor's journey toward wholeness

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Scott Lokers. Mask In Hand : One Pastor's Journey Toward Wholeness. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d5cd9989-df28-440f-9420-96aa7fa6c5c8.

S. Lokers. Mask in hand : one pastor's journey toward wholeness. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d5cd9989-df28-440f-9420-96aa7fa6c5c8

Scott Lokers. Mask In Hand : One Pastor's Journey Toward Wholeness. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/d5cd9989-df28-440f-9420-96aa7fa6c5c8.

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This work is born out of self-preservation-both personal and professional. After a number of years of doing ministry, I found myself thinking that there has to be a better way, a healthier way to do this. It felt, at different times, like a matter of survival. And this combination between the personal and the professional is profound. I began to wonder why what was happening at church was affecting me so much personally. I believe it has to do with the nature of ministry. We are often dealing with ultimate issues-matters of life and death. And not just physical life and death, but spiritual, and eternal. In order to survive, then, I found myself asking some big questions of myself and of God. Why is this so difficult? Why am I struggling so much? Why do I keep getting stuck in the same place? What do I need to learn about myself and about God?

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