As many of you who have followed this site anticipating another 58MXLive show to air I think it’s time to shed some light on what is going on. As you may or may not know Five8 is a self supported ministry by a couple average guys who love the Lord, have families and also work full time jobs (not in ministry).
In giving with our time over the past year, God has really opened up some huge doors. Unfortunately never being in that situation I was pinned trying to keep up with every opportunity God presented. As a result about 6 weeks ago my wife told me if she wasn’t a Christian she would have left a long time ago. This was a serious issue, one that really caught me off guard. You see I’m the guy who always said I will never sacrifice my family for ministry. I do not want my two little girls to hate God for my lack of time and devotion with them as I have heard time and time again how families have been destroyed by “full” time pastors. The vision that goes through my mind is Jesus standing there with my wife and kids while I roost on them leaving them in the dust. What a weird place to be and yet now I see I even left God behind.
Fast forward 6 weeks, and God has done some amazing things in our marriage and my own heart. He has show me some amazing thing, mostly BE STILL AND KNOW I’M GOD….So my family doing a whole lot better, we just got back from an amazing 10 day trip to California in which we drove and i was able to really reflect on the past year and how I let ministry tear my family apart.
So we are in the rebuilding state of Five8 Motocross and 58MXLive (maybe it will be something else) but just know we too don’t have it all figured out. So please keep the ministry in your prayers we will be back better, and more focused. We have some cool things planned with some trick bible devotionals and we may even get some guest riders interacting, but you’ll have to stay tuned.
In the mean time read this snippet I found from one of my favorite pastors Mark Driscoll
Burned Out Pastors
Jul 2, 2007
Pastors
- Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention in their churches.
- Fifty percent of pastors’ marriages will end in divorce.
- Eighty percent of pastors and eighty-four percent of their spouses feel unqualified and discouraged in their role as pastors.
- Fifty percent of pastors are so discouraged that they would leave the ministry if they could, but have no other way of making a living.
- Eighty percent of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years.
- Seventy percent of pastors constantly fight depression.
- Almost forty percent polled said they have had an extra-marital affair since beginning their ministry.
- Seventy percent said the only time they spend studying the Word is when they are preparing their sermons.
Pastors’ Wives
- Eighty percent of pastors’ spouses feel their spouse is overworked.
- Eighty percent of pastors’ spouses wish their spouse would choose another profession.
- The majority of pastors’ wives surveyed said that the most destructive event that has occurred in their marriage and family was the day they entered the ministry.