There is a sad reality in our culture. We see high-profile leaders fall into scandal and moral failures all too often. Unfortunately, this kind of news is not exclusive to the world outside of the church. Pastors and other Christian leaders are frequently in the headlines as the new subject in an ongoing thread of compromised integrities and broken ministries. My guest on today’s show has written a book to try to help leaders from ending up in that storyline. His name is Michael MacKenzie and his book is titled Don’t Blow Up Your Ministry: Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down. Whether you are a ministry leader or you’re someone who cares about a ministry leader in your life, what Michael has to share is important for all of us.
Michael MacKenzie is a licensed professional counselor, ordained pastor, and hospital chaplain. He has served for ten years as the clinical director of Marble Retreat, a Colorado retreat center that specializes in ministering to pastors and ministry leaders in crisis. He studied marriage and family counseling at Denver Seminary and has a DMin in pastor care from Lincoln Christian University. Michael and his wife, Kari, have two sons and live in Florida.
Show Highlights
Michael helps us to see the problem of leaders frequently falling in our culture.
The pressures of ministry are unique and Michael shares what contributes to that.
Michael helps all of us to explore the brokenness that might be operating beneath the surface and how to address it.
Resources
Get Michael MacKenzie’s book Don’t Blow Up Your Ministry: Defuse the Underlying Issues that Take Pastors Down.
Check out the Marble Retreat where Michael has worked as a professional counselor.
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