Vaughan Roberts’s talk from the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Indonesia over the Summer
I had two surprises when I started out as a pastor 25 years ago.
The first was that it was even better than I had imagined. I was actually being paid to do what I longed to do above anything else: tell people about Jesus and teach the Bible! But the second surprise was that it was much harder than I’d anticipated. The sense of the privilege and importance of my work was exhilarating, but it was also exhausting.
