Describing the difficulties of balancing a career and family life, The Pastors Family: The Challenges of Family Life and Pastoral Responsibilities is a personal narrative that discusses the all-too-familiar practice of neglecting your family for your job. Pastors will learn the importance of balancing time and attention between their families and religious careers by exploring the problems caused by one pastors prolonged absence from home. Containing research and first-hand experiences, The Pastors Family calls for a change in ministry policies that will enable pastors to devote as much time to their families as they do to their congregations.Containing stories and anecdotes from the author, his wife, and his two children, this book offers suggestions on how to improve the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of a pastors family. The information and insight provided by The Pastors Family will also help pastors’wives realize that they are not alone in their demanding roles and will help church policymakers discover the need to improve relations between the congregation and the pastors family. With the hope that the universal problems of pastors’families will be revealed, the author shares with you methods that have helped bring him and his family closer together, including:
understanding the expectations of the stereotypical “superpastor” and learning how to set boundaries between family life and career
realizing that a pastors family is subject to the same problems and challenges other families face and helping your family deal with this pressure
learning the various definitions of codependency and how this can attribute to ps...
