Subject: Pastoral theology
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Kicking Habits
Kicking Habits: Upgrade Edition is the groundbreaking book on systemic change that has literally birthed new congregations, rejuvenated tired leaders, and transformed declining churches. It tells the story of thriving church life through the experiences of the institutionally alienated, spiritually yearning public. It provides the big picture of thriving church life in the postmodern world.…
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Pastor
Ordained ministry, says Willimon, is a gift of God to the church–but that doesn’t mean that it is easy. Always a difficult vocation, changes in society and the church in recent years have made the ordained life all the more complex and challenging. Is the pastor primarily a preacher, a professional caregiver, an administrator? Given…
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Leading Your Ministry
Pastors are often taught the finer points of preaching and counseling and the intricacies of theological thinking – and this is assumed to be enough – but rarely are they taught the principles of leadership. Two few leaders are identified and nurtured in seminary. Alan Nelson makes a case for that need and seeks to…
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The Learning Congregation
Thomas Hawkins proposes a fresh and highly practical model for congregational leadership, providing practical strategies for understanding the relationship between leadership, learning, and ministry. The Learning Congregation is must reading for all pastors, church leaders, and church members.
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Spiritual Leadership For Church Officers: A Handbook
This timely new leadership guide for the PC(USA) is written for church officers who are looking for a deepened relationship with God as they serve the church. Author Joan Gray challenges elders and deacons to see themselves as spiritual leaders and equips them to act as spiritual leaders alongside their pastors. This helpful volume also…
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Unbinding Your Church
Who would have thought that a how-to manual, a pastor’s guide, could be witty, charming and fun? Unbinding Your Church, the Pastor’s Guide to the Real Life Evangelism Series, by author, researcher, pastor and attorney Martha Grace Reese, is all that. It will help you lead your congregation through a year of life-changing and church-changing study of…
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We Are The Church Together
Is there anything distinctive about what it means to be ‘church’ in a culturally diverse congregation? Does the cultural diversity of a congregation affect the way it seeks to form and renew itself as a community of faith? On-the-scene research in three culturally diverse congregations in a large southern city answers these questions in ways…
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The Elephant In The Boardroom
Carolyn Weese and J. Russell Crabtree – experts in the field of church leadership – have written a nuts-and-bolts guide to developing a succession plan for smoothing pastoral transitions. Filled with strategies and solid advice, this handy resource is based in solid research and the authors’ many years of experience working with churches in a…
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Congregation: Stories And Structures
In a unique, full-scale study of congregational life, Hopewell shows that it is narrative-the oral tradition-that knits a congregation together. Reviews: ‘This book fills an important gap in the literature of practical theology. Practical theology needs to know how to describe situations, especially the empirical situation of the church. We will depend on Hopewell’s method…
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Make Room For The Boom…Or Bust
Church Growth specialist Gary L. McIntosh explores six different church models designed to reach yesterday’s, today’s and tomorrow’s generations for Christ.
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Team Ministry
Here is a step-by-step workbook for authorizing and empowering teams in your congregation. The principles and guidelines are adaptable to churches that have one core team of lay ministers or as many as one hundred teams of volunteers and staff in ministry. Teams can use this workbook to craft mission statements and then walk through…
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Carriers Of Faith
This book is written to honor Robert Lynn, who contributed to both theological foundations and the practice of faith during his tenure as Senior Vice Presidents for Religion of the Lilly Endowment. These essays, by seventeen authors of various denominational, professional, and personal backgrounds, describe different aspects of the role of congregations in transmitting faith.…