Burnout is recognized as a modern illness. As burnout occurred in general specialized occupation, the pastor has been related to the burnout as well. The pastor''s wife is not the exception in burnout. In the West, the study on burnout began from the ...
Burnout is recognized as a modern illness. As burnout occurred in general specialized occupation, the pastor has been related to the burnout as well. The pastor''s wife is not the exception in burnout. In the West, the study on burnout began from the nineteen eighties, and the study has contributed to the renewal of a burnout minister and the minister who will suffer from burnout./// It is difficult to summarize the causes of burnout in a word. Burnout occurs due to the complex operation of various causes. In burnout, stress is the main cause, and there are business dimension, such as excessive business, repetitive work or workaholism. There are personal causes like human relationships, and there are environmental causes like rapidly changing age or the stagnation of the church. There are the causes according to the personality of the pastor''s wife, too. The pastor''s wife suffers from burnout because of the complex operation of mental, psychological and spiritual causes. /// If a pastor''s wife suffers from burnout, he loses the desire and goals of life and drifts away from the ministry business like the satellite leaving its orbit. Furthermore, she tries to acquire self-satisfaction with the abnormal methods, and she suffers physically from the abnormal symptoms. She feels psychologically disillusionment or defeat, and she possesses anger, a cynical way of thinking, and a negative attitude as a result. She falls into the deeper mire because he can''t have a right relationship with God spiritually. /// In a biblical point of view, Moses advanced for Canaan leading the Israelites with the authority of three powers, the legislature, the executive and the judicial. However, Moses asked to die because of the unfaithfulness, denial, disobedience and grumbling of the Israelites. Elijah prayed that he might die under the broom tree because of tribulation by Jezebel, and Jonah prayed that God would take away his life because his expectation about Nineveh wasn''t achiev