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There is nothing traditional about the typical family of the twenty-first century, and so it follows that ministering to today's families presents an assortment of new challenges. Rainey believes that the resources needed by the church to confront and combat family problems do exist, and Ministering to Twenty-First Century Families is a user-friendly guide to combating the destruction of the...

Archibald Hart of the Fuller Institute of Church Growth reports that 90 percent of pastors work more than forty-six hours per week, and many work sixty hours. Nine out of ten feel inadequately trained to handle the demands of the ministry.2 Another survey found that 80 percent of the clergy feel the church has negatively impacted their families, and 33 percent say the ministry is an outright hazard to their families.3 Pastors are no different from many men in that they too often struggle with
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