Mondays With My Old Pastor

"SERVING GOD IMPLIES ENTERING A BATTLE, AND IT IS WISE TO REMEMBER THAT IN A BATTLE THERE ARE NO SOLDIERS WITHOUT WOUNDS"  -  Jose Luis Navajo

Battles can wound us and leave us crippled.  I am reminded how fragile life can be from a friend who because of self-inflicted wounds cost him his job as a leader in the church and another friend who was so battled scarred, not from the enemy, but from the leaders he served with that he just threw in the towel and quit.

I just started reading Jose Luis Navajo wonderful book, "Mondays with my Old Pastor (Thomas Nelson, 2012).  It is about a pastor almost fifty who is going through ministerial burnout and constant tiredness.  He knows there is something terribly wrong but he hides from the people who know him best.  Finally he takes his wife's advice and he see his old retried Pastor on Mondays.

If anyone is serving in a church and facing the three headed dragon of discouragement, frustration, and disillusionment, here is a book to read.  The book is centrally about how the cross of Christ can bring healing and restoration to tired and lonely souls.  Life doesn't start at almost fifty but it does start at Calvary.  It is only looking at the cross that we can really see and discover how valuable we really are to God!