{"id":19648,"date":"2017-01-24T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/?p=19648"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T01:38:09","slug":"why-good-pastors-and-church-staff-sometimes-get-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2017\/01\/24\/why-good-pastors-and-church-staff-sometimes-get-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Good Pastors And Church Staff Sometimes Get Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was watching the incredible movie <em>Apollo 13<\/em>. \u00a0When it appeared the astronauts could die in space, the news media, who had chosen not to cover the scheduled moon landing, were now descending on the home of astronaut Jim Lovell in mass. \u00a0Lovell&#8217;s wife Marilyn, played by Kathleen Quinlan, asked a NASA publicist why they now cared, he sheepishly noted it was now newsworthy.<\/p>\n<p>My heart sunk when she replied,<strong><em> &#8220;Landing on the moon was not newsworthy so why should not landing on the moon be?&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is alarming how quickly we get bored with products, events and sadly, even people. \u00a0Landing on the moon, with all its ingenuity, technical skill and intellectual horsepower, had become old hat. \u00a0It was no longer impressive or newsworthy.<\/p>\n<p>We see the same faulty thinking played out still today.<\/p>\n<p>Why do good pastors and church staff get fired by boards and personnel committees? \u00a0Why do bosses fire good employees who have a history of quality performance? \u00a0Why do great college football coaches get run out of town by greedy boosters (see <a href=\"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2015\/11\/29\/the-type-of-man-you-want-leading-your-son-a-tribute-to-mark-richt\/\">Mark Richt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2015\/11\/28\/a-rant-against-lsu-and-20-leadership-quotes-to-honor-les-miles\/\">Les Miles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/2010\/11\/18\/12-quotes-from-a-leader-in-distress-texas-longhorn-mack-brown\/\">Mack Brown<\/a>, and Phillip Fulmer)? \u00a0And worst yet, why do husbands and wives leave their beautiful spouses and families for other options. \u00a0I have a theory.<\/p>\n<p>It is founded in ungratefulness, boredom, and a complete lack of long-term thinking and perspective. \u00a0My theory is this:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Excellence Becomes Average When It Is All You Have.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pastor who delivers God&#8217;s Word faithfully and without error week after week.<\/li>\n<li>The employee who is not flashy but is solid and dependable.<\/li>\n<li>The college coach who graduates all his players, runs a clean program, fills the stadium, pays for all the other sports programs, and goes to a bowl game every year.<\/li>\n<li>And the spouse, who gave birth to your children, cooked your meals, cleaned your house, put up with all your bad habits, laughed at your dumb jokes, and faithfully served you for decades.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These individuals should be honored, not casually dismissed. \u00a0Smart leaders guard against &#8220;shiny stuff\/people syndrome&#8221; and boredom. \u00a0Smart leaders value dependability and longevity. \u00a0A lady once told me after her husband left her for another woman, &#8220;You never miss the water until the well runs dry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be very, very careful if you are about to terminate a longtime employee or leave your spouse. \u00a0Trust me, your well will run dry. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God honors faithfulness in our lives. \u00a0We should value it in the lives of others<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&amp;id=9cf0d32f3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18442 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1269.png?resize=250%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1269\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&amp;id=9cf0d32f3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0or on the image to the left and as a free gift for subscribing to this site, you can receive\u00a0my new Ebook\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&amp;id=9cf0d32f3b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em><strong>1269 Leadership Quotes: Timeless Truths From 2016\u2019s Top Christian Leadership Conferences<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Featured are the Johnny Hunt Mens Conference, ReThink Leadership, Orange and Leadercast Conferences among others. \u00a0If applied, these insights will make you an exponentially better leader. \u00a0Enjoy!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend I was watching the incredible movie Apollo 13. \u00a0When it appeared the astronauts could die in space, the news media, who had chosen not to cover the scheduled moon landing, were now descending on the home of astronaut Jim Lovell in mass. \u00a0Lovell&#8217;s wife Marilyn, played by Kathleen Quinlan, asked a NASA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-19648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","tag-leadership"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/divorce_1485308265.png?fit=429%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19658,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19648\/revisions\/19658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briandoddonleadership.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}