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Help for the new pastor : practical advice for your first year of ministry / Charles Malcolm Wingard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Phillipsburg, New Jersey : P&R Publishing, [2018]Description: xvii, 206 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781629954677 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 253.5 WINH 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4011.3 .W564 2018
Contents:
Your first year of ministry brings brand-new challenges--often with inadequate preparation and little time to adjust. How do you moderate meetings, manage a church budget, and counsel struggling congregants, all while preparing sermons every week? The new pastor's time is also inundated with something else--advice! Too much of it! Where do you begin? What you need during your make-or-break first year is practical, realistic preparation for ministry. Drawing from more than three decades of his own experience, Pastor Wingard gives essential help for navigating the principal duties of the minister. Find the tools you need to get established in your ministry and lead with confidence. Foreword / by R. Kent Hughes -- Understanding your call to ministry -- Preparing for pulpit ministry -- Preparing and delivering a sermon -- Practical advice on preaching -- Leading worship -- The sacraments -- Church administration -- Growing through conflict -- Home visitation -- Practicing hospitality -- Counseling -- Weddings -- Hospital and hospice care -- Funerals -- Your denominational duties -- The character and habits of effective ministers -- Small things that yield big results -- A long and fruitful ministry -- Advice for student preachers -- Tips for seeking a pastoral position -- Readings in preaching and pastoral theology.
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Includes index.

Your first year of ministry brings brand-new challenges--often with inadequate preparation and little time to adjust. How do you moderate meetings, manage a church budget, and counsel struggling congregants, all while preparing sermons every week? The new pastor's time is also inundated with something else--advice! Too much of it! Where do you begin? What you need during your make-or-break first year is practical, realistic preparation for ministry. Drawing from more than three decades of his own experience, Pastor Wingard gives essential help for navigating the principal duties of the minister. Find the tools you need to get established in your ministry and lead with confidence. Foreword / by R. Kent Hughes --
Understanding your call to ministry --
Preparing for pulpit ministry --
Preparing and delivering a sermon --
Practical advice on preaching --
Leading worship --
The sacraments --
Church administration --
Growing through conflict --
Home visitation --
Practicing hospitality --
Counseling --
Weddings --
Hospital and hospice care --
Funerals --
Your denominational duties --
The character and habits of effective ministers --
Small things that yield big results --
A long and fruitful ministry --
Advice for student preachers --
Tips for seeking a pastoral position --
Readings in preaching and pastoral theology.

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