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Pastoring Difficult Sheep

October 12, 2026 · 40 min

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How do you pastor people who consistently drain your time, create relational tension, or seem to make every issue their issue?

Matt Smethurst and Ligon Duncan talk candidly about the challenge of shepherding difficult sheep. They discuss church members who lack social awareness, monopolize pastoral attention, become fixated on a particular cause, struggle to get along with others, or expect their personal ministry passion to become the church’s priority.

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