(ChurchLeaders) October is Pastor Appreciation Month and as such is an opportunity for church members to show that they see and value the service of their ministry leaders. But pastor appreciation can be a source of struggle for some church leaders, as one South Carolina pastor shared Tuesday.
“’Pastor Appreciation Month’ is strange for a lot of pastors (myself included),” said David Sons, lead pastor of Lake Murray Baptist Church in Lexington, S.C. “Most pastors, if not all, want to know that the life they live, work they do, and ministries they lead are a blessing to their church members. While also recognizing that they do all those things primarily for the glory of God and not the praise of men. Because of this, many of us subtly create a false dichotomy between God’s glory and man’s praise. But the two aren’t always mutually exclusive.”