Many veteran pastors would agree that ministry now is much harder than it used to be. The added stressors are not because they have been trying to respond to the ever-changing logistical and technological needs of the modern church. Instead, it is the constant frustrations of trying to figure out how to respond with grace to the preferential demands from us as church members without completely derailing the mission of our church. Even when our pastors pray faithfully and seek wise counsel regularly, they still get beat-up from one side or the other and sometimes even both sides at the same time.