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Having been a pastor for twenty years before taking my current position as executive director of the Christian Action League, I can identify with these pressures and the consequential suicidal thoughts. “And because most pastors are people-pleasers, they get frustrated and feel that they can’t live up to that.”
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“We set the bar so high that most pastors can’t achieve that,” said London. London, who served with Focus on the Family, and considered by many as a pastor of pastors, used to stress that being a pastor was a high-profile, high-stress job, with nearly impossible expectations and demands. At the end of the day, pastors are just people who need to reach out to God for his help and strength, each and every day.” We are the ones who are supposed to have all the answers. Greg Laurie, who is the senior pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, where Wilson served, said: “Sometimes people may think that as pastors or spiritual leaders we are somehow above the pain and struggles of everyday people. The reasons pastors consider suicide can be quite surprising and revealing. He leaves behind a wife, two children, and a lot of bewildered people who wonder how a pastor could do such a thing. Megachurch associate pastor, Jarrid Wilson, ended his life on the eve of World Suicide Prevention Day, and more ironically, only hours after officiating at the funeral of someone who committed suicide. In recent years, it’s alarming the number of pastors who have taken their own lives in suicide. Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0 Pexels/Burst