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Pastoral Ministry according to Paul: A Biblical Vision is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the ultimate purpose of pastoral ministry? What emphases and priorities should fuel the pursuit of this purpose? These are perennial questions engaged by pastors, the churches that employ them, and the seminaries that prepare them. As a New Testament scholar who works at the intersection between biblical studies and practical ministry, James Thompson suggests that we need to recapture...

the community has not reached the goal, for it must progress from its infancy (cf. 1 Cor. 3:1–5) to maturity. The community’s conversion is therefore only the beginning of the narrative. Paul does not envision blameless individuals but a community transformed by God. The remainder of 1 Corinthians demonstrates that the conditions at Corinth now frustrate Paul’s pastoral vision. Despite the suggestion that the community’s present experience in the corporate narrative is one of being sanctified (1:2)
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