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15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors: How to Strengthen Your Inner Core and Ministry Impact is unavailable, but you can change that!

The church finds itself in a period of great diversification and multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the...

Effective pastors understand that passion is essential to ministering well. They are honest about the drainage that real life causes to passion and they know which of the spiritual habits refills their zeal. The practice of these disciplines is mandatory for pastors—without them, they run out of gas. Our wounds cannot be ignored without causing leakage to our passion. Hurts are healed and holes repaired by surrender to the Spirit, and it is the disciplines that invite the Spirit to visit us and administer