When many ministers’ primary role shifted from being pulpit preacher to being institutional CEO, clergy found themselves wondering, “When did my study become an office?” Today, as congregations consider tapping government funds to provide social services once provided by secular agencies, another question may be arising: “When did our ministry become a program?”
Books
All for God's Glory: Redeeming Church Scutwork
Louis B. Weeks
Called to Be Human: Letters to My Children on Living a Christian Life
Michael Jinkins
Good Mourning: Getting Through Your Grief
Allan Hugh Cole Jr.
Governance and Ministry: Rethinking Board Leadership
Dan Hotchkiss
Heart, Mind, and Strength: Theory and Practice for Congregational Leadership
Jeffrey D. Jones
I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life
Gregg A. Ten Elshof
More Power in the Pulpit: How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons
Cleophus J. LaRue, ed.
Setting Words on Fire: Putting God at the Center of the Sermon
Paul Scott Wilson
This Odd and Wondrous Calling: The Public and Private Lives of Two Ministers
Martin Copenhaver and Lillian Daniel
Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community
A past president of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, Weeks locates the often denigrated work of church administration under the rubric of pastoral care.
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