For more than half of the state’s Baptist ministers, the 8-to-5 grind of their nonchurch-related job bleeds over into nights and Saturdays of visitation, study and preparation for a packed out Sunday schedule. Such is the life of a bivocational pastor. It is estimated that 51–53 percent of the pastors in the state’s 3,200 Southern Baptist churches are bivocational, said…
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