Equipped for Good Work: A Guide for Pastors: A Guide for Pastors, Third Edition - Rilegato

Cothen, Joe

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ISBN 10: 1455616133 ISBN 13: 9781455616138

Casa editrice: Pelican Pub Co Inc, 2012

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A practical handbook that has served pastors time and time again. Extensively updated to aid in meeting the increased demands and challenges of twenty-first-century ministry, this edition includes expanded indexes and reading lists. Covering everything from technology to organizational management, each invaluable chapter serves as a vital resource for ministers facing new challenges of pastoral work today.

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Recognizing that the pastor is the key to vitality in the typical church's life and ministry, Dr. Joe H. Cothen with Dr. Jerry N. Barlow presents in these pages a valuable guide to a purposeful, constructive ministry. Extensively updated to aid in meeting the increased demands and challenges of twenty-first-century ministry, Equipped for Good Work: A Guide for Pastors, Third Edition includes technological suggestions and solid policy and programming guidelines, along with specific suggestions on various aspects of ministry and on reference materials to provide pastoral inspiration and study content. Expanded indexes and reading lists add to this practical handbook that has served pastors time and time again.

Abounding with insight, encouragement, helpful guidelines, and practical suggestions, this volume draws upon a lifetime of on-the-job observations and experience in addressing problems, questions, and situations that confront every church and every minister. For more than thirty years, this book has served as a practical handbook for new and experienced pastors, and it continues to be a relevant and vital resource for ministers in facing new challenges of pastoral work today.

Dr. Joe H. Cothen is a graduate of Mississippi College and the University of Southern Mississippi. He earned his doctor of theology degree from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary where he also served as professor of pastoral work. For more than four decades, he has held pastorates in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. A native of Poplarville, Mississippi, Dr. Cothen is also the author of The Preacher's Notebook on Isaiah and The Pulpit Is Waiting: A Guide for Pastoral Preaching, both published by Pelican.

Dr. Jerry N. Barlow is a professor of preaching and pastoral work and dean of graduate studies at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He has published a number of articles and chapters in various publications and is also the author of Studying and Serving with Success: Integrating Academics and Ministry, a Workbook, published by Pelican.

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Designed to guide both new and experienced ministers in their everyday pastoral work, this comprehensive volume has been revised to aid twenty-first-century pastors, church staff, ministers, chaplains, and seminary students who face the challenges of providing competent, contemporary ministry.

Inspirational, informative, and thoroughly updated chapters on the following are included:
The Pastor and His Work
The Building of the Church
Communication in the Church
A Pastorate from Start to Finish
The Need for Pastoral Preaching
The Planned Preaching Ministry
Pastoral Evangelism
The Pastor and Weddings
The Pastor's Ministry to the Bereaved
The Church Ordinances
Policies and Programs for Effective Ministry
Budgeting for Effective Ministry
The Pastor and Church Staff
The Pastor and His Deacons
The Pastor's Public Relations

Helpful appendices include sermon planning, using technology in pastoral work, and suggested reading with updated resources for ministers.

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• Editore: Pelican Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1455616133
• ISBN 13: 9781455616138
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Barlow Jerry N.