Pastor’s Handbook
Overview
Powerful. Practical. Pastoral. Pastor’s Handbook is the major expansion and revision of beloved preacher John R. Bisagno’s previously heralded work, Letters to Timothy. Based on his sixty years in ministry, it now includes 160 brief yet powerful chapters of practical insight for handling real life pastoral issues—“things that might have fallen through the cracks in seminary.”
Bisagno still mentors young pastors in his retirement and recognizes new challenges in this profession known for its high dropout rate. Keeping that in mind, Pastor’s Handbook adds helpful entries on such issues as “The Seeker Friendly Church,” “Solving Worship Wars,” “Multiple Campuses,” “New Media,” and “Home Groups” as well as “Internet Pornography,” “Biblical Inerrancy,” “The High Cost of Overnight Change,” “Homosexuality,” “Christianity and Islam,” and more than a dozen other timely topics.
Bisagno also refreshes many of the original chapters, factoring in new world issues and his updated survey of pastoral colleagues.
In the foreword, pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren (The Purpose-Driven Life) writes, “My prayer is that an entire new generation of pastors and church planters will use this book to develop the necessary perspective, convictions, character, and skills needed for ministry in the 21st century from this giant of the 20th century.”
Top Highlights
“Various teams or committees to implement the many facets of a growing church are most important. Varying degrees of authority/leadership are assigned to five different entities within the church: pastor, staff, deacons, committees, and congregation. There is an important place for each in the life of the church, and each should consider the other more important than itself.” (source)
“Third, you fail to train leaders. If you fail here, your church can fall apart when you leave. We pastors love to talk about what happened since I came. The test of your leadership is what happens when you leave.” (source)
“Fifteen minutes is the maximum for your message; ten to twelve is better. Speak warmly and tenderly” (source)
“and promote attendance at your church. And your congregation might” (source)
“Doctrinal issues are never decided by congregation or committee.” (source)
- Title: Pastor's Handbook
- Author: John R. Bisagno
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2011
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 469
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian leadership; Christian leadership › Handbooks, manuals, etc; Christianity; Clergy; Clergy › Handbooks, manuals, etc; Clergy › Professional ethics; Clergy › Professional ethics--Handbooks, manuals, etc; Management › Religious aspects--Christianity; Pastoral theology; Pastoral theology › Handbooks, manuals, etc; Philosophy & religion; Religion
- ISBNs: 9781087792750, 9781433673894, 1433673894, 1087792754
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433673894
- Resource Type: text.monograph.handbook
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:44:09Z