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Jeremy Stalnecker

Why Nobody Wants to Be a Pastor Anymore

September 25, 2025   ●   53 min

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Why are fewer young people stepping into ministry today? Why does it feel like pastors are burning out, retiring, or walking away with no one to take their place?

In this episode of the March or Die Show, Jeremy Stalnecker and Sean Kennard sit down with Bart Barber, Pastor of First Baptist Farmersville, Texas and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, to talk honestly about the crisis in pastoral leadership and biblical leadership in general.

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