Jon Sanders hosts today’s 95Podcast with guest Jeff Gauss. Jeff was a church planter for many years and had a great deal of success until he hit a major wall of burnout and depression about six years ago. He was one of Jon’s coaching clients in the aftermath of that. He went on to start a business called Church Plant Solutions that does bookkeeping and tax returns for pastors and churches.
Jeff is now back in full-time pastoral ministry as an Executive pastor at a church in Florida. When he moved from Minnesota/North Dakota to Florida, he was able to go off of all his anti-depressant medications completely. Today’s discussion concerns burnout in ministry, his business, and the services he provides for churches and pastors.
Links to Resources Mentioned or Related
- Church Plant Solutions
- Email Jeff
- Link to NEW! Soul Care Essentials Online: 3-Session Video Series
- Link to NEW! Soul Care Essentials Cohort: 6 Weeks of Guided Conversations for Post-Conference Groups
- 95Network – Soul Care Essentials
- 95Network – Healthy Church Assessment
- Read Stalled: Hope and Help for Pastors Who Thought They’d Be There By Now
- Watch Podcast on YouTube
Key Takeaways
1) Burnout can manifest in different ways. There is no one specific way that it reveals itself in a leader’s life.
2) Taking a break from ministry to focus on developing soul health is alright. It’s impossible to create a sustained ministry “success” if you’re not doing good on the inside. An unhealthy soul will always come to the surface.
3) You may discover that serving in a bi-vocational capacity will bring tremendous fulfillment and margin to your life versus being full-time.
4) The physical location that you serve in can affect your soul health.
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