Church leadership can be very stressful. Those in your congregation and others in your community know they can trust and confide in you, but bearing others’ burdens isn’t always an easy task.

A new study reported in Medical Daily shows that people who have little control over their jobs have a 15.4 percent increased likelihood to earlier death due to stress.

While you can’t control what issues come your way through the church, you can control how you respond to them. One very important matter is ensuring you are taking time off. For further reading on this topic, check out Influence’s “So You Work on Sunday…”