Preventing Ministry Failure
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Faithful pastors recognize their need for self-examination and humble repentance. Preventing Ministry Failure draws from faithful men of the past to provide a thorough guide for today's pastors to openly discuss and repent of their common failings.
Preventing Ministry Failure is an updated version of James Guthrie’s A Humble Acknowledgement of the Sins of the Ministry (1651) combined with extracts from James Durham’s Commentary on Revelation. Beyond updating the language, the editors have added references verses and application questions to stimulate meditation, reflection, discussion. Pastors will enjoy help, encouragement, and counsel as they strive to fulfill their ministries above reproach.
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- Draws from teachings and examples of faithful men of the past
- Includes verse references and application questions to stimulate meditation, reflection, discussion
- Provides a thorough guide for today’s pastors to openly discuss and repent of their common failings
- The Necessity of Holy Ministers
- The Duty of Confessing Ministerial Sin
- Sins before Ordination
- Sins of Personal Life
- Sins in Public Conduct
- Sins in Relation to Preaching
- Sins in Relation to Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
- Sins in Relation to Visitation and Catechizing
- Sins in Relation to Church Government
- Sins in Relation to National and Political Affairs
- What Should a Minister Do If He is in a State of Deadness?
- How Churches Can Put Wrongs Right
- Incentives for Ministers to Pursue Holiness
- Reassurance that Christ’s Work Will Succeed
- Encouragement for Ministers to Shine
These are solemn confessions—the confessions of men who knew the nature of that ministry on which they had entered, and who were desirous of approving themselves to Him who had called them, that they might give in their account with joy and not with grief.... Let us, as they did, deal honestly with ourselves. Our confessions ought to be no less ample and searching.
—Horatius Bonar
As a young seminary student with many heavy tomes to work through, my initial relief at the brevity of this title on my reading list was soon replaced by admiration at how so much profound self-examination could be packed into so few pages.
—From the Foreword by David G. Whitla
- Title: Preventing Ministry Failure
- Authors: James Guthrie, James Durham
- Publisher: Reformation Heritage
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Pages: 110
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781601789365, 9781601789372, 160178936X, 1601789378
- Resource ID: LLS:PRVNTNGMNSTFLR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-09T16:26:42Z