A Pastoral Rule for Today by John P Burgess

A Pastoral Rule for Today by John P Burgess

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 relyingon 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.

Small, Joseph D.: - Joseph D. Small is Associate Director of the Office of Theology and Worship for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He is the editor of Fire and Wind: The Holy Spirit in the Church Today, published by WJK.

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ISBN 13	9780830852345
ISBN 10	0830852344
Title	A Pastoral Rule for Today
Author	John P Burgess
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	IVP Academic
Year published	2019-05-14
Number of pages	208
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