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- Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their church.
- Four thousand new churches begin each year, but over 7,000 churches will close.
- Fifty percent of pastors’ marriages will end in divorce.
- Seventy percent of pastors constantly fight depression.
- Eighty percent of pastors and 84% of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
- Ninety-five percent of pastors do not regularly pray with their spouse.
- Seventy percent of pastors do not have a close friend, confidant, or mentor.
- Fifty percent are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way to make a living.
- Eighty percent of pastors surveyed spend less than 15 minutes a day in prayer.
- Seventy percent said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
- Almost 40% polled said they had an extra-marital affair since beginning their ministry.
- Eighty percent of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first 5 years.
- Ninety percent of pastors said their seminary or Bible school training did only a fair to poor job preparing them for ministry.
- Ninety percent said the hardest thing about ministry is dealing with uncooperative people.
- Seventy percent felt God called them to pastoral ministry before their ministry began, but after 3 years of ministry, only 50% still felt called.
- Eighty percent of pastors’ spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.
- The majority of pastors’ wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.
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