The Minister and His Parish
Author | : Henry Wilder Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Church group work |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry Wilder Foote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Church group work |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David F. Wells |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1994-12-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802807472 |
Evangelicals, argues Wells, have largely lost the truth that God also stands outside all human experience, that he still summons sinners to repentance and belief regardless of their self-image, and that he calls his church to stand fast in his truth against the blandishments of the modern world.
Author | : David B. Bowman |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-01-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532644264 |
The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas. It's a vocation not for weak spirits. The parish presents general challenges rather than specialist endeavors. So, wearing one hat after another, the pastor may speak from the pulpit, join a team processing a current social concern, visit the intensive care hospital unit, and offer counsel at birth, marriage, or death--maybe all in one day. Clergy and non-ordained alike will find that Parish, the Thought provides a closeup insight into this ministry, telling the truth about the defeats and victories experienced over the course of forty years in the parish. This memoir spends little time in navel gazing. Rather, the author explores the humor, conflicts, ventures, and achievements that rise in his memory. The reader will detect a commitment to priestly and prophetic ministry, one that seeks to comfort the distressed and to nudge the comfortable out of apathy, encompassing the personal and public dimensions of the faith. All this as an adventure following the Pioneer, Jesus, the Christ.
Author | : Thomas Sikes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1802 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : A. B. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1749 |
Genre | : Church etiquette |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Greg Johnson |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-12-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310116066 |
At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
Author | : Christopher Wesley |
Publisher | : Ave Maria Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2015-03-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1594715777 |
Christopher Wesley is on the front lines of youth ministry. He’s been in the parish trenches, refocusing an unpopular youth program and making it one where teens feel connected, stay involved, and grow in faith. In Rebuilding Youth Ministry, Wesley offers ten indispensable strategies to help you make your youth programs just as successful. Wesley coaches fellow Catholic ministry leaders on how to overcome common hurdles of ministering to young people. Wesley shares how he faced feelings of complacency, underestimated youth, and entertained rather than ministered in his own parish. Wesley built a distinctive program based on small group faith formation and sustained it with the assistance of more than sixty volunteer adult mentors. Wesley lays out ten strategies that helped grow participation in his high school program from nine teens to ninety and the middle school program from forty teens to eighty-five, including: Making your youth program about more than pizza; Pursuing authentic relationships between small groups and mentors; Shaping a dynamic youth ministry team; and Creating a space that’s welcoming to teens.
Author | : Sir James STONHOUSE |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Sikes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : Clergy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : sir James Stonhouse (10th bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1776 |
Genre | : Church management |
ISBN | : |