[PDF] Forming Ministers Or Training Leaders eBook

Author : Anthony Clarke
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725263513

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Forming Ministers or Training Leaders is a unique book because it is based on a significant piece of empirical research. Anthony Clarke explores the way that the practice among theological colleges in the UK has been changing and develops the concept of the “pastoral imagination” to express what a theological college is aiming to do with its students. The book then offers an analysis of the “pastoral imagination” that is in fact at work in a selection of Baptist colleges and other theological institutions in the UK. Alongside this Clarke offers a coherent and robust theological account of the work of a theological college, through engaging with recent trinitarian theology, and argues that this is best understood as a process of formation which embraces other ideas of training and education.

Author : Hahnenberg, Edward P.
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158768909X

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A theological and practical exploration of ministry formation in the church today.

Author : Ryan T. Hartwig
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310106710

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Nearly every church is trying to help their congregants build relationships with others, grow as disciples, and/or engage in meaningful service through small groups. Many have argued that these small groups are the preferred vehicle for relationship building, disciple making, and membership assimilation in the local church, especially in large, multisite churches. Leading Small Groups That Thrive shows small group leaders, step by step, how to plan for, launch, build, sustain, and multiply highly effective, transformational, healthy small group experiences where people grow spiritually together. Based on a large-scale research study of small group pastors, leaders, and members, Leading Small Groups That Thrive gives church leaders both what they want--practical, straightforward, actual small group member voices and experiences, and compelling guidance on how to build transformational groups complemented with real-life examples and data of successful small groups--and what they need--substantial, challenging insights and a data-driven model grounded in the latest research on church small groups.

Author : David Heywood
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,16 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060443

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The Church is currently experiencing a transition in the way it understands and practises both mission and ministry. It is to be outward-looking, engaging with the wider community, involving all its members in mission and clergy are to play the role of enablers and equippers of the ministry of the whole church. However, ministerial formation in colleges and courses throughout the country lags behind this emerging consensus. ‘Theological education’ is still largely based on academic models. Reimagining Ministerial Formation offers a new way forward, where ‘ministry’ comes to be about the whole church, and ministerial formation is about collaboration between clergy and laity. It argues strongly for a shift away from ‘front-loaded’ training, to a new focus on formation as a life-long process.

Author : Paul Goodliff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498291236

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In the English-speaking Western world alone, thousands of men and women begin formal training for Christian ministry each year, or informally, seek to equip themselves for pastoral ministry. Over the past fifty years, the ancient world of virtue ethics has been reimagined as a means of forming people of character and morality today, and in this book, it is used as the framework to understand what we are doing as we form Christian ministers now, and how we might strengthen that formation by more consciously linking the practices of ministry with the person, spirituality, and wisdom of the practitioner. Writing out of the context of a lifetime of pastoral ministry and the oversight of ministers in the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Paul Goodliff explores what pastors do and who they are called to be, using a mixture of theological and pastoral inquiry, reflections upon art, and personal story. This book will be of interest to those who are charged with forming the next generation of ministers; but anyone starting out on that journey of formation for ministry will also find this vision of ministry challenging and inspiring.

Author : Lallie Godfrey
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Church and education
ISBN : 9781788271097

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"There are long-established connections between thinking about education in schools and thinking about training of ministers - and fruitful connections continue. This booklet draws on reflection on issues in training and education, and the experience of one diocese, to demonstrate how connecting ministerial training with work in schools enriches and completes both"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Craig Van Gelder
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 35,88 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802864937

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In this volume the third book in the Missional Church series eminent missional church expert Craig Van Gelder continues to track and contribute to the expanding missional church conversation, inviting today s brightest minds in the field to speak to key questions concerning church leadership.

Author : Andrew Seidel
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1575675870

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Leadership development is a life-long process. Yet the church of Jesus Christ is in desperate need of strong leaders in this generation. In Charting a Bold Course, Andrew Seidel provides an exceptional tool to get you started on cultivating the unique gifts and abilities God has given you and your leadership team. This leadership course will fit perfectly in a leadership training program.

Author : Andy Goodliff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666719269

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In this book of essays for Paul Goodliff, some of the loves of his life are put into conversation with the practice of ministry. Paul Goodliff has been a Baptist minister for nearly thirty-five years, in roles that have been local, regional, national, and ecumenical. Ministry has also been the subject of his own research and publications. Ministry in Conversation seeks to extend his work and offer new insights.