A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice

A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice image
ISBN-10:

0830852344

ISBN-13:

9780830852345

Released: May 14, 2019
Publisher: IVP Academic
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
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Description:

The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO. How can pastors thrive amid such demands? What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task. This book, coauthored by three experts with decades of practical experience, explains how relying on a pastoral rule has benefited communities throughout the church's history and how such rules have functioned in the lives and work of figures such as Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, and Bonhoeffer. It also provides concrete advice on how pastors can develop and keep a rule that will help both them and their congregations to flourish.











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