Following the end of the third year of the most difficult pastorate of my life, upon the recommendation of an outside consultant and given the green light by the Holy Spirit, I resigned and walked away from that troubled church. Exactly twelve months later, I began pastoring once more.
During that involuntary interim, had you asked -- as some did -- I would have told you I was fine, that all was well, and that I was eagerly anticipating resuming the ministry to which the Lord had summoned me many years earlier.
