SECOND EDITION

MINISTRY NUTS AND BOLTS

What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary

AUBREY MALPHURS

Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary

© 1997, 2009, 2016 by Aubrey Malphurs

Second edition

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the first edition as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Malphurs, Aubrey.

Ministry nuts and bolts: what they don’t teach pastors in seminary / Aubrey Malphurs.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Pastoral theology. 2. Clergy—Office. I. Title.

BV4011.M371997253—dc2197-41092

CIP

ISBN 978-0-8254-4443-2

Contents

List of Figures and Charts

Introduction

Part 1: The Values of Your Ministry

1: The Definition of Core Values

2: The Discovery of Core Values

3: The Development of Core Values

Part 2: The Mission of Your Ministry

4: The Definition of Mission

5: The Development of a Mission

Part 3: The Vision of Your Ministry

6: The Definition of Vision, Part 1

7: The Definition of Vision, Part 2

8: The Development of a Vision

Part 4: The Strategy for Your Ministry

9: The Definition of Strategy

10: The Development of a Strategy

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

Index

List of Figures and Charts

Figure 1.1. Leadership and Ministry Concepts

Figure 1.1. Core Values—Defining Characteristics

Figure 2.1. Levels of Involvement

Figure 2.2. Common Cause—30% Agreement

Figure 2.3. Common Cause—70% Agreement

Figure 3.1. Sample Acrostic Credo

Figure 9.1. Engel’s Scale

Figure 9.2. Levels of Commitment

Chart 1.1. Types of American Evangelical Churches

Chart 1.2. Kinds of Values

Chart 3.1. Forms of Values

Chart 4.1. The Great Commission

Chart 7.1. The Differences Between a Mission and a Vision

Chart 10.1. Maturity Matrix

Introduction

Pastor Andrew Johnston was well into his third year at Lake Country Church, and things weren’t going well. He knew he was in trouble, and if something didn’t change fairly soon, he would need to consider another ministry. The church was an average American church, consisting of seventy-five to eighty-five people, and was divided between two ...