Vacation for Pastors Who Won't Take One

Vacation? Rest? What a selfish question! How could a pastor even think of taking a break from the pulpit? 

There are too many people without the gospel, too many pressing needs in the church, and, most importantly, too many emails. What kind of pastor would put his own relaxation over laboring for the salvation and sanctification of eternal souls?

Okay, I'm being facetious.

Well, sort of.

I doubt many pastors would say those things aloud. And yet my experience has been that we pastors don't always do vacations or rest very well. We often do not use up all of our allotted vacation time, nor do we plan ahead well for breaks. We check church emails on our days off and squeeze in a call or two, or six. It's possible to be a lazy pastor who abuses rest and clocks in the bare minimum to keep his job. But I have found the opposite problem to be far more common.

So for all the pastors who scoff at days off, come let us and reason together about how we should approach vacations and our preaching schedule.  Continue at Jeramie Rinne