Pastors Leaving Ministry 2025. Less than half of pastors (47%) say they’ve never seriously considered leaving pastoral ministry and just over half (56%) say the same about leaving their church, according to hartford institute for religion research. Pastors who haven’t thought about leaving ministry say “the immense stress of the job” (34%), “current political divisions” (32%) and feeling “lonely and isolated” (18%) are factors that have negatively impacted their.
Pastors today are burned out, and many reached a breaking point in the past few years. In september 2015, the results of a lifeway research survey of 1,500 pastors of evangelical and historically.