TENTANG EPISODE INI
Pastor and author Jay Kim explores how the demands of ministry can leave us attentive to everyone else while increasingly disconnected from what is happening within our own spiritual lives.
Pastors spend much of their lives tending to the needs, questions, and spiritual lives of others. But what happens when caring for so many others leaves us increasingly inattentive to what is happening within us? In this conversation on FrontStage BackStage, pastor and author Jay Kim joins host Jason Daye to explore the gift of living an examined life.
Ministry gives us plenty of legitimate demands on our attention. Sermons need preparing, people need caring for, decisions need making, and unexpected situations constantly require a response. Over time, however, we can become so accustomed to responding to what is around us that we lose awareness of what is happening in our own souls and even of God's presence with us in the midst of it all.
Jay is the lead pastor of WestGate Church in Silicon Valley, host of The Digital Examen podcast, and author of several books, including his newest, The Pace of Peace. Drawing from his own experience and the ancient practice of the Examen, Jay invites ministry leaders to consider how the pace and patterns of our lives are forming us.
Together, they discuss:
- Why pastors can become highly attentive to everyone else while losing awareness of what is happening in their own spiritual lives
- What the constant demands of ministry may be doing to our capacity for presence, attention, and life with God
- How to recognize when faithful responsiveness in ministry has quietly turned into reactivity
- What an examined life can reveal about the pressures, patterns, and motivations shaping us beneath the surface
- Why pastors may know the language of spiritual maturity while still struggling to see clearly what is happening within themselves
- How the Examen can help ministry leaders move beyond hurried self-awareness toward deeper reflection, honesty, and attentiveness to God
If you are a pastor or ministry leader who spends much of your life attending to the needs, questions, and spiritual lives of others, this conversation offers an invitation to notice your own life again. Not as an exercise in self-focus, but as a way of becoming more present to God, more honest about what is happening within you, and more attentive to the person you are being formed to become.
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