Ministry Without Madness
Ministry Without Madness

Author: Gordon Oliver

Publisher: SPCK

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0281068496

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In previous generations, ministers often enjoyed high job satisfaction. They could be clear about who they were and what they were for. Today, they are increasingly anxious about role confusion, overload and burnout. Drawing on his abundant experience in hands-on ministry and ministry education, Gordon Oliver speaks directly, with faith and with hopefulness to these realities. He explores the covenant that exists between ministers and their churches and provides a clear evaluation of the structures, constraints and freedoms of ministry. With real-life stories and insightful questions for reflection, his thought-provoking guide helps ministers, and those who support them, work together to fulfil ministers' true calling.

Mad Church Disease
Mad Church Disease

Author: Anne Jackson

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0310287553

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Mad Church Disease is a lively, informative, and potentially life-saving resource for anyone in ministry---vocational or volunteer---who would like to understand, prevent, or treat the epidemic of burnout in churches. The book draws on research and interviews with leaders from across the United States, providing statistics, stories, and hope for healing.

Delight in Disorder
Delight in Disorder

Author: Tony E Roberts

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02-26

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780971803886

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Delight in Disorder is the story of one pastor's battle with bipolar disorder. This spiritual memoir is a house of meditations where faith and mental illness co-exist, at times fueling each other to dangerous distortion, at times feeding each other to fruitful gain. It offers hope for those often neglected and shunned. It also fosters compassion for believers towards those with troubled minds.

The Precarious Church
The Precarious Church

Author: Martyn Percy

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2023-05-19

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1786225115

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What is the biggest threat facing churches today? Not enough young people? Too little mission and evangelism? Unsustainable buildings? Unappealing styles of worship? Not enough diversity? Whatever the reasons, the church today seems to exist in a state of anxiety, concerned with its self-preservation. In this bold and hopeful book, Martyn Percy argues that a being a broken church is in fact good news, as it is only through the cracks that the overwhelming abundance of God can shine through. This collection of essays and reflections considers what it means to be a precarious church. The term suggests uncertainty and peril, yet it is rooted in the Latin precatio, meaning prayer. It argues that the Church’s vocation is not to be successful or even to survive but to be precarious, liminal, unpredictable and mysterious – a place of encounter with the holy. The questions that should consume us are not, “how shall we remove the risks and alleviate our anxieties?”, but rather “how shall we live in this age of uncertainty?” Every age has had its uncertainties and this inspiring volume explores what faithfulness to each other and to God looks like in an age of anxiety.

MADNESS TO MINISTRY: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
MADNESS TO MINISTRY: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY

Author: Jacy Navarro

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-08-29

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0359046231

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This book is a compilation of personal journal entries, poetry, academic papers and writings completed over the last four years of my spiritual journey with in the Unity community. They are the personal writings of a Unity truth student actively seeking to understand her divinity and vigorously seeking out what it means to be divine, and where that divinity comes from. A thought-provoking, conversation-starting, question-spawning, new look at our old ways; it is a bi-product of intense and uncomfortable intentional personal expansion.

Four Ministries, One Jesus
Four Ministries, One Jesus

Author: Richard A. Burridge

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1467452521

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Combining the skills of a leading biblical scholar with the wisdom derived from years spent training candidates for ordination, Richard Burridge offers rich reflections on the four gospel portraits of Jesus and shows how they not only inform the calling to ordained ministry but also help sustain the practice of Christian ministry in its various dimensions. Four Ministries, One Jesus is for all who feel called to a life of Christian ministry and want to ground their calling in the teaching and example of Jesus, as provided in the four gospels. Burridge helps readers consider vital questions such as: how to sustain reading, Bible study, and theological reflection in ministry; how to extend pastoral care to people outside as well as inside the Christian community; how to care for self and family; and how to stay attuned to the Spirit by cultivating a fresh and vigorous life of prayer.

The Holy Spirit and the Church
The Holy Spirit and the Church

Author: Thomas Hughson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-10-28

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1317028627

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Advancing strong, scholarly discussion on the Holy Spirit and the church in the context of the ecumenical movement, six theologians in five different churches offer new theological and pastoral insights into the work of the Holy Spirit in the churches of Christianity, in ecumenism, and in witness. With The Church: Towards a Common Vision (World Council of Churches) document serving as a common point of reference, a pastoral perspective is distinctive throughout. Relating theology to non-theological knowledge of the contemporary cultural context, as well as application to pastoral practice, this book draws from, and is applicable to, clergy formation, preaching, lay discipleship, church-world relations, social mission, congregational life, grass-roots ecumenical cooperation, and witness to Christ and the gospel by racial minorities.

The Future Shapes of Anglicanism
The Future Shapes of Anglicanism

Author: Martyn Percy

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1317182111

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To many people, the Church of England and worldwide Anglican Communion has the aura of an institution that is dislocated and adrift. Buffeted by tempestuous and stormy debates on sexuality, gender, authority and power – to say nothing of priorities in mission and ministry, and the leadership and management of the church – a once confident Anglicanism appears to be anxious and vulnerable. The Future Shape of Anglicanism offers a constructive and critical engagement with the currents and contours that have brought the church to this point. It assesses and evaluates the forces now shaping the church and challenges them culturally, critically, and theologically. The Future Shape of Anglicanism engages with the church of the present that is simultaneously dissenting and loyal, as well as critical and constructive. For all who are engaged in ecclesiological investigations, and for those who study the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion, this book offers new maps and charts for the present and future. It is an essential companion and guide to some of the movements and forces that are currently shaping the church.

Ecclesianarchy
Ecclesianarchy

Author: John Williams

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0334059828

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Arguing that what is needed is a provisional approach to ministry which recognises that all forms of ministry are, and always have been a response to social and cultural context, 'Ecclesianarchy' brings theological and practical insight to bear on the question of ministry's provisionality.