Carl Lentz

So empathy and kindness, if you don't know how to regulate it turns into major codependence where you end up trying to please everybody all the time and I really struggled with that I think. When you're a young pastor, you just want everybody to relax and chill. It's like in a church that gets bigger, the number of people who are unhappy gets bigger.

So empathy and kindness, if you don't know how to regulate it turns into major codependence where you end up trying to please everybody all the time and I really struggled with that I think. When you're a young pastor, you just want everybody to relax and chill. It's like in a church that gets bigger, the number of people who are unhappy gets bigger.

So empathy and kindness, if you don't know how to regulate it turns into major codependence where you end up trying to please everybody all the time and I really struggled with that I think. When you're a young pastor, you just want everybody to relax and chill. It's like in a church that gets bigger, the number of people who are unhappy gets bigger.

And if you don't have your mind set on what that means, it can throw you. And for me, that was an area I didn't really prepare for. So I felt often like I was...

And if you don't have your mind set on what that means, it can throw you. And for me, that was an area I didn't really prepare for. So I felt often like I was...

And if you don't have your mind set on what that means, it can throw you. And for me, that was an area I didn't really prepare for. So I felt often like I was...

not doing a good enough job for somebody every day so you have a great sunday and there'd be one person hey i you know i had a bad experience with this volunteer okay and there'd be another person hey we don't have anything for young moms in in in the bronx yeah we don't that sucks hey we need to have a youth ministry that meets in every borough yeah the list goes on and if you don't know how to frame it right that stuff will eat away at you because that's also part of the job is managing that so i didn't pressure is the wrong word i think um

not doing a good enough job for somebody every day so you have a great sunday and there'd be one person hey i you know i had a bad experience with this volunteer okay and there'd be another person hey we don't have anything for young moms in in in the bronx yeah we don't that sucks hey we need to have a youth ministry that meets in every borough yeah the list goes on and if you don't know how to frame it right that stuff will eat away at you because that's also part of the job is managing that so i didn't pressure is the wrong word i think um

not doing a good enough job for somebody every day so you have a great sunday and there'd be one person hey i you know i had a bad experience with this volunteer okay and there'd be another person hey we don't have anything for young moms in in in the bronx yeah we don't that sucks hey we need to have a youth ministry that meets in every borough yeah the list goes on and if you don't know how to frame it right that stuff will eat away at you because that's also part of the job is managing that so i didn't pressure is the wrong word i think um

Pressure comes from when you kind of don't understand where the power comes from. I've never mistaken that. I mean, as a minister, you know quickly, oh my gosh, this is all God using broken people. I do not have the ability to communicate a perfect sermon about a perfect God and a perfect gospel being imperfect. I don't have the goods. And then you watch God show up time and time again.

Pressure comes from when you kind of don't understand where the power comes from. I've never mistaken that. I mean, as a minister, you know quickly, oh my gosh, this is all God using broken people. I do not have the ability to communicate a perfect sermon about a perfect God and a perfect gospel being imperfect. I don't have the goods. And then you watch God show up time and time again.

Pressure comes from when you kind of don't understand where the power comes from. I've never mistaken that. I mean, as a minister, you know quickly, oh my gosh, this is all God using broken people. I do not have the ability to communicate a perfect sermon about a perfect God and a perfect gospel being imperfect. I don't have the goods. And then you watch God show up time and time again.

And you start realizing, well, thank God that we checked that one off. This ain't on me because I'm not good enough. So pressure I never felt. I started to feel pressure to manage things. And I started to do it internally. And that was kind of the beginning of the end of that chapter for me. And I didn't share didn't share that pressure and that in that burden.

And you start realizing, well, thank God that we checked that one off. This ain't on me because I'm not good enough. So pressure I never felt. I started to feel pressure to manage things. And I started to do it internally. And that was kind of the beginning of the end of that chapter for me. And I didn't share didn't share that pressure and that in that burden.

And you start realizing, well, thank God that we checked that one off. This ain't on me because I'm not good enough. So pressure I never felt. I started to feel pressure to manage things. And I started to do it internally. And that was kind of the beginning of the end of that chapter for me. And I didn't share didn't share that pressure and that in that burden.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bryce, you're a great question asker. Also, do you take a moment to just talk about how great your shirt is?

Bryce, you're a great question asker. Also, do you take a moment to just talk about how great your shirt is?