{"id":6859,"date":"2013-10-25T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2013\/10\/25\/tell-us-your-scariest-ministry-stories\/"},"modified":"2013-10-25T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:15:42","slug":"tell-us-your-scariest-ministry-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/tell-us-your-scariest-ministry-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us Your Scariest Ministry Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"503\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg 503w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=300,202 300w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=251,169 251w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=324,218 324w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=82,55 82w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=164,111 164w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=412,278 412w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=343,231 343w, https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/10\/35698.jpg?resize=160,108 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><span class=\"image-credits\">Cemetery in front of church<\/span><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure><p><em>October.<\/em> The harvest is in, fresh cider steams on the woodstove, and Jack-O&#8217;-Lanterns flicker out grins on the front porch. The lights seem dimmer.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s time for some scary stories.<\/p><p>Scary <em>ministry<\/em> stories, that is, and we want you to tell them. (You define &#8220;scary&#8221;: Unexplainable? Legitimately frightening? That moment that you realized you weren&#8217;t a Calvinist and your lead pastor was?) <\/p><p>Tell that scariest tale in all it&#8217;s spooky glory in the comments below.<\/p><p>While we may edit for length, we won&#8217;t edit for <em>terror<\/em>, and we&#8217;ll reprint the best ones here on Halloween.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October. The harvest is in, fresh cider steams on the woodstove, and Jack-O&#8217;-Lanterns flicker out grins on the front porch. The lights seem dimmer.It&#8217;s time for some scary stories.Scary ministry stories, that is, and we want you to tell them. (You define &#8220;scary&#8221;: Unexplainable? Legitimately frightening? That moment that you realized you weren&#8217;t a Calvinist <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/tell-us-your-scariest-ministry-stories\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"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":[2655],"tax_ctp_books":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[154],"tax_ctp_field_guide_subcategory":[],"tax_ctp_field_guides":[],"tax_ctp_format":[131],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[156],"tax_ctp_tags":[4688],"tax_ctp_topics":[],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tax_ctp_authors-paul-j-pastor","tax_publications-leadership-journal","tax_ctp_tags-preaching"],"acf":{"scripture_references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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