https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-48388 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:27:37 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-48388 […] Why Do Rookie Pastors Get Fired? |HHH […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-47790 Sun, 31 May 2015 01:07:34 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-47790 […] weeks ago, David Murray posted on the #1 reason pastors are fired in their first year of ministry: a lack of EQ (Emotional Quotient – or, “peopleability”).  Well, I’ll be the first to admit I have a hard […]

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-26939 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:23:22 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-26939 Could sometimes the fault not be the pastor’s, but the congregations? {Think: ‘fun filled Youth Group’ verses “Christ Centered Doctrine in the Youth Group.’}

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18875 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:15:48 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18875 Wow, Adam. I’m amazed at that. How short-sighted. Because of your experience in “the real world” you would go to the top of my list if I was interviewing you

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18874 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:14:40 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18874 This is so well put, Wade. Thanks for writing.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18873 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:14:01 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18873 I believe EQ can be grown and developed in many cases.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18872 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:13:28 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18872 Ben, I think the value of personality testing is not so much saying that one personality type is good and another is bad. It’s about building self-awareness (strengths/weaknesses, helps/hindrances) and awareness of the differences compared to others that is the great advantage of these tests.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18870 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:11:59 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18870 Agreed.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18869 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:11:34 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18869 Looks great, Ron. I’ll have a look at that.

]]> https://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/03/21/why-do-rookie-pastors-get-fired/#comment-18415 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:43:59 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=12307#comment-18415 Good comments, Dr Murray. I work full-time in the working world and am part-time at church with Pastor Croft. It’s been like this for almost 10 years. Yet it’s amazing how pastor search committees hold this against me in interviews. I’ve had them tell me that since I don’t have 40-hr-a-week church experience, I’ll get in over-my-head. I’d like to see them balance my schedule! Too bad the committees that have interviewed me don’t share your opinion on the value of work outside the church.

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