Deepening Your Ministry through Prayer and Personal Growth
Overview
Prayer. Quiet time. Spiritual disciplines. Every pastor knows their value. But what do you do when schedules squeeze you tight, when you feel more harried than holy, when you lose your sense of God’s gentle leading? How do you maintain good spiritual health?
Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer and Personal Growth offers tested, life-changing counsel. It is a focused, no-stone-unturned look at what some of America’s dynamic pastors do to keep grounded—as well as what they had to go through—to stay that way. Never before has there been such an inspiring, challenging treatment of these issues by so many respected church leaders. This fourth book in the Library of Christian Leadership offers the steps to help you stay intimate with the Lord and help others do the same. Out of the trenches and onto the page, here are thirty fresh and helpful chapters of excellent advice.
Top Highlights
“Often finding time for God is difficult in the midst of church life, but closeness with God is the basis for lasting ministry.” (Page 13)
“Divide the day into three parts: waiting on the Lord, praying for others, and praying for yourself.” (Page 26)
“Sabbath-keeping: separating ourselves from the people who are clinging to us, from the routines to which we cling for our identity, and offering them all up to God in praise.” (Page 21)
“It’s no surprise that my spiritual lows come when I’m busy, preoccupied, focusing my attention on everything but God, and my spiritual highs come on ‘Sabbath’ days of rest and relaxation. God instituted the Sabbath not only because the human body needs physical rest, but more so because human activity frustrates intimacy with the Creator.” (Page 11)
“Few things are as hollow as a relationship intended for passion that instead is marked by mere duty.” (Page 39)
Product Details
- Title: Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer and Personal Growth
- Editor: Marshall Shelley
- Publisher: Moorings
- Publication Date: 1996
Marshall Shelley is editor-in-chief of Leadership Journal and editorial vice president of Christianity Today International (CTI). Shelley studied journalism at Bethel University and earned a Master of Divinity in theology from Denver Seminary where he subsequently served as a board member for nearly a decade. He has also studied at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Wheaton College Graduate School, served as a board member for the American Tract Society, and held pastoral staff positions in his hometown of Denver, Colorado.
Marshall joined CTI after developing his journalistic skills at David C. Cook Publishing Company and The Denver Post. He is the author of several books including Well-Intentioned Dragons, several volumes in the Fresh Ideas series, the Library of Leadership Development, and the Library of Christian Leadership. He also served as general editor of The Quest Study Bible.
Shelley and his wife, Susan, live in Wheaton, Illinois, and have five children, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.