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Effective Pastoring: Giving Vision, Direction, and Care to Your Church
Bill Lawrence, D.Min
A great deal of confusion exists today as to what pastors are to be. Are they chaplains, CEO's, preachers, managers, or counselors? Paul gave us the answer long ago: They are to be equippers, disciple-makers. Click here for more information on this leader changing book.

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Effective Pastoring: Giving Vision, Direction, and Care to Your Church

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Hardcover, 262 pp, 0849913535 

    

"A great deal of confusion exists today as to what pastors are to be," Lawrence writes. "Are they chaplains, CEO's, preachers, managers, or counselors? Paul gave us the answer long ago: They are to be equippers, disciple-makers." Just as the great artist Michelangelo took a chipped and flawed piece of marble and transformed it into a masterful sculpture of David, so does a pastor with his flock. "This is pastoring", writes Lawrence, "serving as sculptors of souls."

  • ISBN: 0849913535
  • ISBN-13: 9780849913532
  • Publisher: Thomas Nelson
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Trim Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/2"
  • Page Count: 262

 Effective Pastoring is written from a three-fold perspective: the pastor's person, purpose, and practice.

In the first section, the pastor's person, Lawrence establishes his most critical value: it takes a spiritual man to accomplish a spiritual task. Unless Christ is the center of the pastor's life and ministry, the pastor will fail no matter how much apparent success he has. The deepest aim a pastor must have is to know Christ and to gain deliverance from the dreaded Leader's Disease.

In the next section, the pastor's purpose, Lawrence focuses on the central place of the Great Commission and disciple-making in every pastor's ministry. His aim is to develop a biblical job description for the pastor in these days when culture seems to have a stronger hold on the thinking of pastors than the Scriptures.

In the last section, the pastor's practice, Lawrence seeks to help pastors hone such critical skills as developing vision, leading change, hiring staff, relating to a board, and being effective servant leaders.

The author's hope is that this book will help many pastors gain biblical perspective concerning the pastorate while growing in vital skills needed to be effective leaders.