A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice Burgess John P.
A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice Burgess John P. The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. How can pastors thrive amid such demands? Today, the pastor is often…
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A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice Burgess John P.
The pastoral office has always been a difficult calling. How can pastors thrive amid such demands? Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO.
This book, coauthored by three experts with decades of practical experience, explains how relying on a pastoral rule has benefited communities throughout the church's history and how such rules have functioned in the lives and work of figures such as Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, and Bonhoeffer. What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task. It also provides concrete advice on how pastors can develop and keep a rule that will help both them and their congregations to