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Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

This book addresses the widespread problem of burnout, but particularly focuses on Christian men and pastors specifically. Despite not being in the target audience I found many of his points universally relevant (though he and his wife have written an equivalent book for women). Slight critiques: he......more

Self care in ministry seems to be widely overlooked, often due to the urgency of the task at hand. This book tackles this issue, giving great amounts of simple and practice advice to slow our lives down to a reasonable speed, to live a ‘Grace paced’ life. While this book is aimed more at working, bu......more

“So much of our drivenness stems from a false belief in a driven God, a view of God as a slaveholder, and harsh taskmaster who can never be satisfied by anything less than his people being in a perpetual state of miserable exhaustion.” While this is probably not a conscious explained thought, it doe......more

Leitura obrigatória para líderes cristãos e pastores cansados.......more

He does a great job of pointing out warning signs for burnout and gives very practical steps on how to “reset” and get back in the race. I did not always appreciate his writing style, but I appreciated the amount of grace he used and the amount of grace he encouraged us to have.......more