Barnabas Ministries Reason for Being . . .
is to help pastors enter into relationships where they find safety in being themselves, support for the journey as a pastor, encouragement to keep on in a day when many pastors are dropping out, and strength to overcome the obstacles, challenges, and opposition within the church, culture, and themselves which hinder them from fully succeeding in the call God has given them to become pastors.
What Pastors Face Today
Pastors today face unprecedented challenges. They are viewed by many with suspicion, minister in a materialistic and religiously pluralistic culture hostile to biblical Christianity, face an attitude of consumerism and special interest groups in the church, are looked at more as CEO’s than as shepherds caring for the souls of people, and they and their families are repeatedly under spiritual attack by the forces of darkness.
How It All Began
“If you are dissatisfied with the quality of your relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ and the work of the Holy Spirit in your church will you meet with me for lunch to discuss these things and explore what we might do to change them?”