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Volume One: Becoming a Minister Becoming a Minister is concerned with the person and self-understanding of the caregiver. It discusses the call to the caring office, the way this inner sense of calling is affirmed in ordination, orders of ministry, set-apartness, and the shepherding metaphor. This is followed by discussions of authorization to servant ministry; the purpose of ministry; the...

needs of those who cry out for help, and the even more urgent needs of those who will not or cannot cry out for help. He enunciated this pathos-laden maxim: Those who most resist receiving help are those who most need it: Can you hear them cry to you, as the man of Macedonia to Paul, in his vision, “Come and help us” (Acts 16:9); and yet refuse our help? Are you entrusted with the charge of a hospital, where one languishes in one corner, and another groans in another …? Remember that such persons
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