Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in the Ministry

by Kyle McClellan

Publishers:

Christian Focus; Practical Shepherding

, 2015

Overview

From the Foreword by Brian Croft: Kyle McClellan has gone into a church “with guns blazing” and he was quickly fired. He has experienced the disappointment of unmet expectations and left because of this. He has pastored a destructive church that chewed him up and spat him out. He has felt the pull of the bigger and better church trying to woo him away. He has faced the burnout and fatigue that many pastors experience that causes them to bail. Read this book. Learn from him. Receive the essential lessons from a wise, broken man who has lived it, possesses the scars from it, owns the T-shirt and yet by the grace of God still stands.

Key Features

• Encourages that God uses your mistakes while making you wiser in the process.
• Shares some of the lessons he learned in those painful years.
• Delivers a raw view of truth and through that truth, a pathway to contentment.

Praise for Print Edition

The more I work with pastors all around the world, the more I am finding that those who have terrible experiences pastoring a church often leave the ministry altogether. The hurt and pain is just too much. Such is not the case for my dear friend, Kyle McClellan, who wrote this book. Kyle shares some of the lessons he learned in those painful years with a raw transparency that is refreshing and engaging to read.

--Brian Croft, Pastor, Auburndale Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky and Founder, Practical Shepherding

Mea Culpa delivers a raw view of truth and through that truth, a pathway to contentment, peace and forgiveness through the power of God. Read it and then live it.

--Ed Weaver, CEO, T4Global, Dallas, Texas

An intriguing book. The story of a man who both burned and was burned by several churches in the early years of his ministry. The lessons he learned along the way will be a great help to seminarians and pastors alike.

--Mez McConnell, Pastor, Niddrie Community Church and Ministry Director of 20Schemes

Product Details

• Title: Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in the Ministry
• Author: Kyle McClellan
• Publishers: Christian Focus, Practical Shepherding
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 116
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Berry, Wendell, 1934-; Berry, Wendell, 1934- Criticism and interpretation; Clergy Office; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Pastoral theology
• ISBNs: 9781781915301, 9781781915318, 178191530X, 1781915318
• Resource ID: LLS:MCLPMSTKSMNSTRY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-01-09T17:44:28Z

About Kyle McClellan

Kyle McClellan is the founding pastor of Grace Church (PCA) in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska. He is an occasional contributor to Practical Shepherding, an organization committed to equipping pastors in practical matters of pastoral ministry.