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¿¿Whatever you need to finish the race, God has already provided.Marathon runners are known for their endurance-they train, they master the habit of discipline, and they persevere through pain. Fortunately, even marathons end. If you have picked up this book, you are likely running a marathon of your own-the marathon of ministry leadership. The Endurance Factor will transform you into a ministry athlete! In this book, Lead Pastor Greg Surratt and Pastor of Leadership Care Chip Judd of Seacoast Church provide ministry leaders with practical wisdom and hope to help them finish the race strong with a captivating double narrative. You will learn practical principles about how to:Fight for your spiritual well-being by embracing the discomfort of vulnerability
Invest in your ministry without sacrificing your relationships
Get painfully honest about your character flaws without losing sight of God's unfailing grace
Build teams on the basis of God's enduring love to create a culture of resilience
Your primary ministry is to rest in God's love, the love that conditions the weary soul to win every race set before you!
About the author
Greg Surratt is the founding pastor of Seacoast Church, which he planted with a small group of like-minded people in 1988. Today, Seacoast has a dozen campuses throughout South Carolina and North Carolina, as well as a thriving online community.Greg is also the founder of The Pastors Collective and opened The Retreat at Church Creek in 2021, both in an effort to help pastors in the wake of the rapidly-growing mental health crisis.Greg is a co-founder of the Association of Related Churches (ARC), and author of the books IR-REV-REND, Re-visioning, and The Endurance Factor. He has also contributed to Outreach magazine, MinistryToday magazine, and Charisma magazine.Greg is married to his childhood sweetheart, Debbie, and has four children and fourteen grandchildren.
