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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...

you—and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me. (Phil. 2:16–18) For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you? Yes, you are our glory and joy! (1 Thess. 2:19–20) In every instance in which Paul declares his pastoral ambition, he indicates that the success or failure of his work will be determined only at the end, when he will either “boast” of his work or realize that his work has been in vain.27 The eschatological horizon is
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