Neil T. AndersonFreedom in Christ Ministries · Pastor

Lord, I never want to be in ministry again

11 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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After burning out on ministry, Speaker B took a job as a psychiatric intake counselor in an emergency room, handling cases from suicidal teens to extreme situations. The intense exposure to human suffering eventually prepared them to return to church work, revealing how secular hardship can be divine preparation.

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Jen was home with the girls and so finished out that year moved to Syracuse but it's interesting that when we moved to Syracuse I had told the Lord I never want to be in ministry again and I said just give me a normal job, Lord. And so he gave me a job as the psychiatric intake counselor in a psychiatric emergency room.
And how'd that turn out for you? Your desire not only working at the psychiatric hospital but your desire to not be administered? I think both of those are funnier because they're connected.
Oh my goodness.
Fine. Fine. You don't want to work in ministry.
Yeah how about here? And you know, there were so many people that normal people whose child or teen or young adult was really struggling people struggling with depression but there were also some crazy stories I mean just wild stories and.
So it well prepared you to go back to work for the church.
That's right. Oh yeah. Yeah that's right. It.