Pastoral Leadership: Shepherding and Caring for God’s People

by Jamison J. Hardy

Publisher:

Concordia Publishing House

, 2023

Overview

Discover how pastoral leadership and pastoral care are one in the same thing with Rev. Dr. Jamison J. Hardy. With more than 20 years of experience, he helps you find ways to push forward and away from the basics of the Office of the Holy Ministry toward phenomenal leadership. Go beyond the day-to-day tasks and find yourself becoming an engaged and active participant in your church to guide your congregation forward.

Use personal reflection tools to see how you currently lead as a pastor and new ways that you can improve. Each chapter includes these questions to help you identify with biblical figures, your everyday life, personal pains, areas of growth, and goals for the future.

Praise for the Print Edition

The most important aspect of Reverend Hardy's insightful book is that he recognizes upfront that pastors are leaders and to be truly effective, must embrace and implement principles of leadership in their ministry. As a former parish pastor, student of leadership, and District President, Reverend Hardy provides a unique perspective as to how leadership principles are at the forefront of one's pastoral vocation. He expertly describes how a pastor who embraces his role as a leader will have a more significant impact on his congregants and community then those who do not. . . I highly recommend this book to all pastors, seminarians, congregational lay leaders, and those prayerfully discerning whether the Office of Ministry is their calling.

—Kurt Senke, author of The CEO and the Board: The Art of Nonprofit Governance as a Competitive Advantage

Any pastor genuinely concerned for faithfulness in his calling will glean not only a deeper understanding of the fertile terms that define his vocation but will discover insights that reveal the unique standing a pastor has as both under shepherd and sheep to the one true God who has an intense burden of love for His flock. But this isn’t just happening on Sunday morning. It extends into the parish’s daily life through humble but confident leadership. It happens during budget meetings. It happens during casual conversation. If only to receive and then practice this insight inherent to Hardy’s book, the reader—and the ones served—will be blessed.

—Rev. Christopher I. Thoma, Senior Pastor of Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

Product Details

• Title: Pastoral Leadership: Shepherding and Caring for God’s People
• Author: Jamison J. Hardy
• Publisher: Concordia Publishing House
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 183
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Christian leadership; Pastoral theology
• Resource ID: LLS:PSTRLLDRSHP
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-15T23:42:08Z

About Jamison J. Hardy

Rev. Dr. Jamison J. Hardy was born in Bay City, Michigan and grew up attending Lutheran schools and planned to have a career in ministry. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Concordia University Wisconsin and his MDiv from Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne. After being ordained in 2000, Pastor Hardy served with Concordia Lutheran Ministries and traveled to Kenya, Sudan, and South Africa several times throughout the years overseeing projects benefitting orphans and the indigenous people in those regions. Pastor Hardy earned his DBA from Walden University in Baltimore in 2012 and he later went on to teach at CTSFW in the D.Min program. At CTSFW, he primarily taught on pastoral leadership and parish administration. In 2015, Pastor Hardy was elected as the 21st President and Bishop of the English District of the LCMS. He and his wife, Wendy, have three children.