Most worship leaders know what burnout looks like. But drift is different, quieter, and in some ways more dangerous. And if you treat one like the other, you will stay stuck.

Burnout is what happens when you gave everything and the tank ran dry. The person in burnout did not stop caring. They cared too much, for too long, with too little coming back in. What they need is rest.

Drift is what happens when something in you quietly decided it was not worth it anymore. The passion is not depleted, it is absent. The gap between the role and the interior life has grown so wide that the two have stopped being connected. What drift needs is not rest. It is honesty.

In this episode we look at both, how to tell the difference, what each one needs, and why the path back from drift almost always leads through a specific moment you have not named yet.

This one is for anyone who has been going through the motions and is not entirely sure when that started.

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