You’re not the only pastor who experienced a tough Christmas Eve yesterday, or feels the weight of it today.
Christmas Eve has come and gone.
As you scroll through social media, you’re seeing all the rave reports from fellow pastors about full churches, beautiful productions and salvations.
But, while you’re happy for them, you don’t respond. Because, in the small church you serve, yesterday was hard. Again.
Instead of a bigger-than-usual crowd, your church building was downright barren because the church members who left for the holidays were not replaced by visitors.
Instead of a lavish musical production, the one or two musicians you do have (if you have any to begin with) were among those who left town to visit family.
And the bad weather didn’t help. Maybe in your church, the heater broke, or the weather blocked the roads. And maybe, while you put a post on Facebook saying you were sorry to have to cancel church on Christmas Eve, inside you were secretly relieved not to have to deal with it this year. Read More
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