{"id":26326,"date":"2022-02-17T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2022\/02\/17\/leaning-in-letting-go\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:10:44","slug":"leaning-in-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/leaning-in-letting-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaning In, Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what&#039;s happening in the congregation or the preacher&#039;s life, Sundays keep coming. In addition to major cultural shifts, preachers face both personal transitions (family struggles, loss) and congregational transitions (including sudden pastoral departures and planned successions). How do we find perspective and exercise patience during these shifts?<\/p>\n\n<p>In this conversation with Joel Gregory, preaching professor at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University, he shares about navigating challenging seasons of transition. Joel shares some personal encouragement and advice, based on his experience plus years of training preachers, on how to manage challenging moments.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead1\">Follow-Up Webinar on Pastoral Transitions<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ct wp-block-ct-related-embedded-articles single small no-heading\">\n\n\n\t\n\t\n<section class=\"article\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"thumbnail\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/after-announcement\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/129379.jpg?w=162&amp;h=88&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-article-card-small size-article-card-small\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/129379.jpg?resize=162,88 162w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/129379.jpg?resize=82,46 82w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"post-kicker\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/search\/?format=Video&#038;ctp_search=1\">Video<\/a><\/span><\/div>\t\t\t<h3 class=\"article-title\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/after-announcement\/\" class=\"article-title-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\tPastoral Transitions\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t<p class=\"ct-article-card-author vcard\">\n\t\t\t\tSean Morgan\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead1\">Links to Resources Mentioned:<\/h2>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Too-Great-Temptation-Seductive-Americas\/dp\/1565301412\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=too+great+a+temptation+joel+gregory&amp;qid=1645133224&amp;sprefix=too+great%2Caps%2C132&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Too Great a Temptation<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preachingtoday.com\/books\/preacher-as-sermon\/preacher-as-sermon.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">The Preacher As Sermon<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of what&#039;s happening in the congregation or the preacher&#039;s life, Sundays keep coming. In addition to major cultural shifts, preachers face both personal transitions (family struggles, loss) and congregational transitions (including sudden pastoral departures and planned successions). How do we find perspective and exercise patience during these shifts? In this conversation with Joel Gregory, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/leaning-in-letting-go\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":26329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"tax_ctp_authors":[3078],"tax_ctp_books":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[174],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[413],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3555,3795,4653,4687,5184],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-26326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tax_ctp_authors-steve-norman","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-challenges","tax_ctp_tags-disciplines","tax_ctp_tags-plans","tax_ctp_tags-preacher","tax_ctp_tags-transition"],"acf":{"scripture_references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leaning In, Letting Go - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Regardless of what&#039;s happening in the congregation or the preacher&#039;s life, Sundays keep coming. 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