Relational Pastor Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves

Name: Relational Pastor Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves
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ISBN: 9780830841028

ISBN-10: 0830841024

ISBN-13: 9780830841028

Edition: 2013

Authors: Andrew Root

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When is the last time you asked yourself hard questions about why you were pursuing certain relationships in your ministry? Could it be that the end game for many of us is not relationship per se but loyalty, adherence, even submission? The sheep in our flock become the means to our end: pastoring becomes less about the people of God and more about maintenance of the status quo—and, if we are willing to recognize it, the elevation of our pastoral status.Here practical theologian Andy Root dissects relational ministry as we have come to understand it and searches for the seed of a more wholesome, more pastoral understanding of the relationships for which God has prepared the church: the…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 3/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 255
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Andrew Root is the Olson Baalson Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of several books, including The Relational Pastor and Relationships Unfiltered, and coauthor with Kenda Creasy Dean of The Theological Turn in Youth Ministry.



Preface



Reshifting Pastoral Ministry: An Introduction



New Energy, New Communications, New Consciousness… New Ministry



Transitioning from the Pastor as Self-Help Entertainer: What Relational Ministry Can't & Must Become



Sipping the Sweet, Hard Liquor of Individualism



All the Lonely People: Pastoral Ministry & the Field of the Personal



What Is a Person?: Recovering a Christian Definition of People



Empathy, It's a Spirit Thing: Why We're Built for Relationships



Can I Read Your Mind?: Brain Science & Relational Ministry



New Visions of Incarnational Ministry: Beyond Our Being Incarnate



Relational Ministry as Gift: Union, Need & the Pastor



Sharing Is More Than What You Learned in Kindergarten: Relational Ministry & the Hypostatic Union



The Place Between: How We Encounter Christ in Relationships



A Quick Pauline Excursion: Sharing and Place in Paul-It's All About the In



Will You Pray for Me?: Prayer as the Essential Practice for Relational Ministry



What This Looks Like: How Story, Teaching & Preaching Fit



I've Got to Run the Church Don't I?: Leadership as Letting Relationships Plow


Appendix: Portraits of Relational Pastors


Notes


Index