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Do Extroverts Make Better Pastors?

There are many difficult vocations in the world and many that require a host of useful skills. But I’m convinced that few jobs require a broader skillset than the pastor, and especially the pastor of the average church—the church of modest size that cannot simply hire a new staff member to take on every task the senior pastor does not wish to do or that he does poorly. A young man who intends to pastor in Canada, and who therefore acknowledges that he may well be the sole pastor on staff at a lo