PASTORS IN RECOVERY · EPISODE 112

What Are You Doing With Their Trust?

When someone trusts a pastor with their private struggles, is their story safe in our hands?

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About this episode

Someone confides in a pastor about the struggles in his marriage. Later, that private conversation seems like the perfect illustration for a Sunday sermon. What should the pastor do?

Through a two-part audio drama, Jon Hammond explores the sacred responsibility that comes with pastoral trust. Good intentions are not enough if we turn someone else’s vulnerability into an opportunity to strengthen our own ministry.

We consider what it means to protect confidentiality, resist the temptation to make others dependent on our leadership, become safe people to tell the truth to, and take responsibility when trust has been broken.

Ben wasn’t giving him an illustration. Ben was giving him his trust.

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