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I did this recently—in my mind, of course. I hit a rough spot in ministry, and all of a sudden my day job looked awfully appealing. For almost a week, I wandered around in a major funk. Words of criticism played again and again in my subconscious like a CD with a skip. The enemy whispered suggestions that my life would be easier, happier, and more fulfilled if I bailed. Like Peter climbing back into his old fishing boat, I mentally climbed back into my non-ministry world and went fishing. But Peter fished all night and caught nothing. This is what we catch if we turn our backs on ministry and go fishing—nothing. No one is challenged, encouraged, or equipped. No one learns from our examples or benefits from our christian books prayers. The body of Christ suffers because we checked out.