Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan discuss how pastors can shepherd difficult or draining church members with wisdom, patience, healthy boundaries, and the humility to remember that every shepherd is first a sheep.
How do you pastor people who consistently drain your time, create relational tension, or seem to make every issue their issue?
Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan talk candidly about the challenge of shepherding difficult sheep. They discuss church members who lack social awareness, monopolize pastoral attention, become fixated on a particular cause, struggle to get along with others, or expect their personal ministry passion to become the church’s priority.