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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...

we have seen that progress consists of the increasing abundance of the community’s love, which is primarily evident in the members’ capacity to look to the interests of others within the community. Paul’s pastoral task is to ensure this transformation. The historical distance between Paul’s communities and the contemporary church prevents us from making the simple transfer of Paul’s practice to our own churches. Paul’s task was to transform first-generation
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