What does it mean to say that a pastor is competent? And how does a competent pastor function? This book is intended to help pastors, seminarians, and lay people who work with pastors understand and answer these two questions. Competence in ministry is a moving target. A ministry technique that works in one parish may not work in another. What works today may not work five years from now. But a competent pastor will be able to adapt to changing locations and changing times. A competent pastor will be happy in her jobaor able to figure out why sheas not happy and how to move forward. A competent pastor wonat get stuckaor when he does get stuck, heall know what steps to take to get unstuck. Competence, defined by author Ronald Sisk as qthe ability to do what needs to be done, q requires ministers to understand themselves and others and to keep a realistic perspective on their lives. Competent pastors function by moving toward this kind of understanding and perspective.Currently in the United States a number of credit-card companies offer airline miles at the rate of one mile for every dollar charged. In our fam ily, we buy everything with our credit card, pay the bill in full each month to avoid interest, andanbsp;...
Title | : | The Competent Pastor |
Author | : | Ronald D. Sisk |
Publisher | : | Rowman & Littlefield - 2005-11-14 |
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