Pastors avoid witnessing for various reasons.
Some of those are given here and relevant responses to those reasons are indicated. Why Pastors Avoid Witnessing 1. Our society and churches have stereotyped evangelical witnesses and we do not want to be associated with a fanatical label. Ministers have only been trained in a confrontational model of evangelism and other professors have belittled this approach. Large, institutional churches, particularly within he setting of a college or university atmosphere, have become models for ministry in the local church 5.