What Pastors Like about their Jobs

From Thom Rainer:

So I took to the Twitterverse again with my poll question asking pastors what they like most about their work. Here are their top ten responses.

1. Seeing lives transformed.  
2. Preaching. Frankly, I expected this response to be number one, but it was a distant second. Preaching is very important to these pastors, but transformed lives are the most important. Of course, some of them noted that preaching transforms lives.
3. Personal evangelism. Though distant to number one, sharing the gospel one-on-one was a clear number three. Here is a fascinating facet of this study to me: Over 85 percent of the pastors named one of these first three as their response. The next eight were named by less than 15 percent of the pastors.
4. The people/members.  
5. Developing new relationships.  
6. Ministering in the community.  
7. Ministering to members.  
8. Casting a vision.  
9. Staff relationships.  
10. Mentoring or discipling one-on-one.