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Building Your Church through Counsel and Care: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

One of the best definitions of leadership is “being willing to take responsibility for someone else.” While pop culture encourages people to break free from obligation to anyone but themselves, Christians who have heard the call of God know that ministry is about caring for others. Care is more than an emotion, a general warm feeling toward people, or an affection for a few individuals. Pastoral...

there. Take the time to become part of what is there, and then these things you have learned will find proper adaptation and application; they’ll become indigenous to that situation. You can grow a dandelion in just a few hours, but it takes seven years to raise an orchid.” I have real problems with the humanistic assumption that we can find the “right way” or the “best way” to do everything, and that if we find it, we’ll get the desired results. When I went to Fourth Presbyterian in 1956, I had
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