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OverviewChurches experiencing numerical and financial decline may dread the day when they can no longer afford a full-time pastor. Freeing up funds that would go to a full-time salary sure would help the budgetmaybe even enough to turn things aroundbut is it even possible to run effective ministries with just a half- or quarter-time professional? Journalist and part-time pastor Jeffrey MacDonald says yeschurches can grow more vibrant than ever, tapping into latent energy and undiscovered gifts, revitalizing worship, and engaging in more effective ministry with the community.Readers get a much-needed playbook forhelping congregations to thrive with a part-time ministry model. They learn to see the model in a new light: to stop viewing part-time as a problem to be eradicated and to instead embrace it as a divine gift that facilitates a higher level of lay engagement, responsibility, playfulness, and creativity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: G. Jeffrey MacDonaldPublisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. Imprint: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.218kg ISBN: 9780664265991ISBN 10: 0664265995 Pages: 180 Publication Date: 07 April 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPerhaps ecclesial institutions, churches, and clergy will now begin to imagine a new way forward where part-time really is plenty for all parties, rather than face death. I hope so, because this is the first book I've read in a long time that's made me excited about the possibilities ministry has to offer me, the church, and the world. -The Christian Century """Perhaps ecclesial institutions, churches, and clergy will now begin to imagine a new way forward where part-time really is plenty for all parties, rather than face death. I hope so, because this is the first book I've read in a long time that’s made me excited about the possibilities ministry has to offer me, the church, and the world."" —The Christian Century" Author InformationG. Jeffrey MacDonald is a part-time United Church of Christ pastor and full-time freelance journalist whose reporting on religion has garnered nineteen national awards, and his previous book Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soulreceived third place for Religion Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Religion News Association. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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