Do you feel like you're on the edge of burnout? Are you a healthy leader? Is there a balance between your work and personal life? In this episode, we talk about leading from a place of health and how to maintain a healthy work-life balance with Dupri Wells. Dupri is an Assistant Campus pastor at Church Unleashed. Additionally, Dupri is in charge of overseeing birth-12th grade ministries and staff. If you want to lead from a place of health and find balance in your life then this episode is for you!

I've been in ministry long enough to know that our "why" can get compromised so easily. In the beginning, it was about God and serving people, but our "why" can shift to productivity, attendance, money, and influence. Now, none of those things that I just listed are bad. However, none of those things are a healthy "why" for ministry. I think that you need to work hard, be productive, reach more people this year than you did last year, and grow your influence.

Here's a harsh reality: your ministry won't always experience growth. Your attendance won't always be substantial. Your team won't always break growth barriers. Your strategy won't always be effective. What do you do when a challenging night, event, or semester turns into a difficult season? I can promise you if you've been in ministry for more than a year, you know that a storm is on the horizon.

Does ministry ever stress you out? Of course, it does. Maybe it's how personal and pastoral life overlap or the burden for people's eternity. The weight of ministry is a real thing. If you lead in any capacity and make decisions, odds are you have goals to hit, change to manage, and complaints to deal with. Throw in long hours and ministry pay, and you have all the ingredients for significant stress.

What if your burnout is your decision? In today's ministry world, we talk a lot about burnout. And for good reason, as I have written about here, the tenure of pastors is tragically short. But I think we've shifted the blame for burnout to the wrong place. Instead, I think we need to look at ourselves first:

A dead battery can not jump-start anything.