80% of New Preachers Will Leave The Ministry Within 5 Years

The Southern Baptist Seminary blog site "Said at Southern" reports 80% Will Leave The Ministry Within 5 Years

80% of seminary and Bible school graduates who enter the ministry will leave the ministry within the first five years.

People Skills = Godliness + Peacemaking

The failure point seem to be “people skills” and more specifically dealing with sinful people. So if you want to beat the odds, become a peacemaker.

Good advice; much easier said than done and much more often said than done. Let's all pray for our pastors and leaders; they need God's grace every day.