Real joy and happiness can not be found in relationships that are hurting. This is also what Jesus is teaching. This verse says , If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. In the Lord s work happiness comes in doing. As the pastor of a church, one would be wise to keep his congregation busy doing the Lord s work.
Stagnation is a blight and curse to any church.
Life s joy comes from being productive. Even more so is this true in the church. We do not need a rocking chair Christianity. I remember my father working well into his eighties. He always said that he did not want to just sit in a rocking chair.