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10 Reasons Not to Resign

How one pastor kept himself from bailing out.
10 Reasons Not to Resign

We are highlighting Leadership Journal's Top 40, the best articles of the journal's 36-year history. We will be presenting them in chronological order. Today we present #24, from 1983 and 1993.

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The thought of resigning passes through most every pastor's mind, especially in times of conflict. The greater the pain, the more the thought nags us.

Leadership Journal first published this article in 1983, and it struck a deep emotional chord among readers. One wrote us, "I was ready to quit my church until I read Don Bubna's ten reasons not to. I decided to stay, and now, past the crisis, I'm glad I did. The article's timing was perfect."

"I was feeling a lot of pressure when I wrote that article," says Don Bubna, then pastor of Salem (Oregon) Alliance Church. The ten reasons helped him continue to minister for four more years in that church. Eventually, however, after twenty-three years at Salem, he moved to another church.

"Now, ten years later, ...

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