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Re: Reasons a pastor would take a 3 month break
You know, the whole, "this pastoring thing is so stressful", I do find to be humorous, and when Prax mentioned Peter and Paul, I think he got it right on the money. Paul didn't just abandon an assembly that he started to take three months or three years off for vacation. Outside of the "second tithe", I can't really think of "vacations" in the Scripture, and for the last 200-300 years, since the Industrial Revolution, "vacations" are maybe 60 or 70 years old. I can not imagine my great-great grandparents working in the shoe mills here in Massachusetts having ever gone on a "vacation", maybe they got a Saturday off and piled their kids onto the back of a truck and went to the beach. We don't need vacations, they are nice to take once and a while, but some of the pastors I've seen are drama queens/divas. Yes, construction might be a good job for some of these "three month off" pastors, or working in a mill or sweat shop. A pastor should not get stressed out, because a pastor should not be alone in the assembly, there should be "elders in every city"- that "elders" there is plural...
-Bro. Alex
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