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Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry: Shaping Contemporary Ministry with Biblical Mandates is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many pastors and churches are buying into today’s consumer-oriented culture and losing sight of a higher biblical calling. Preoccupied with image and standing, measurable success and market effectiveness, pastors are replacing the biblical role of shepherd for the worldly model of shopkeeper. Rediscovering Pastoral Ministry offers insights from a team of pastors and scholars, examining the...

grow in God’s grace • rejoice—praise the Lord • reflect—quiet moments to contemplate • reinvest—in my grandchildren • regain perspective—in prayer and Scripture When I leave the fair haven of my home for ministry, I depart in strength, not weakness. When I leave those I love most at home, I do not leave them unprotected and vulnerable to the temptations that will try to seduce them.18 This seems to be the testimony of those whose home life has flourished even though it’s planted in the soil of ministry.