15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors: How to Strengthen Your Inner Core and Ministry Impact
Ebook
Overview
The church finds itself in a period of great diversification and multiple expressions. In the midst of great change, we have become confused about what really makes for healthy and authentic pastoral leadership. What are the basic and common characteristics necessary for pastors to be effective? How can lay people understand the pastoral call more fully and partner better with pastors for the health of their church? Here Mannoia and Walkemeyer examine the foundations of pastoral effectiveness and bring together nine experienced pastoral leaders to discuss the basic characteristics that exist in effective pastors. Regardless of context or personality, ineffectiveness in pastors and subsequent ill health in churches is often not the result of a lack of calling, but instead is the result of misappropriated efforts to find success. Let’s help those who are called to be good stewards of their call. And let’s help churches have a chance to be healthy under the leadership of effective pastors!
Top Highlights
“Dallas Willard organizes the disciplines differently. In The Spirit of the Disciplines, he articulates two groupings:” (source)
“Spiritual disciplines are not about routines (the ditch) but about relationship.” (source)
“Effective pastors understand that passion is essential to ministering well. They are honest about the drainage that real life causes to passion and they know which of the spiritual habits refills their zeal. The practice of these disciplines is mandatory for pastors—without them, they run out of gas. Our wounds cannot be ignored without causing leakage to our passion. Hurts are healed and holes repaired by surrender to the Spirit, and it is the disciplines that invite the Spirit to visit us and administer healing.” (source)
“Christ must be the center of our pastorates. Ministry is from Him, through Him and to Him. Consequently, Christ must, in a very real manner, permeate all that is done for Him. It is only by saturating our souls in Christ through spiritual disciplines that we can live and minister from a well-formed center.” (source)
“Effective pastors recognize their brokenness and consequent need to prepare their souls for the presence of the Holy Spirit through spiritual habits. This vigorous life of spiritual discipline toughens and softens the soul so that daily life is lived from a spiritual center.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : 15 Characteristics of Effective Pastors: How to Strengthen Your Inner Core and Ministry Impact
- Authors:
- Mannoia, Kevin W.
- Walkemeyer, Larry
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2007
- ISBN: 9781441224132
Kevin W. Mannoia has served in active ministry as a
church planter, pastor, and overseer of pastors since 1980. Kevin
has held responsibilities as superintendent and bishop of his
denomination before assuming a national role as president of the
National Association of Evangelicals. His visionary leadership in
forming next generation leaders was further focused while serving
as Dean of Theology at Azusa Pacific University, where he currently
serves as Faculty and Graduate Chaplain. Having grown up overseas,
Mannoia regularly teaches and preaches internationally. He is an
author, mentor, and global church strategist who works regularly
with leaders for effective ministry.
Larry Walkemeyer has been in ministry for more than thirty
years, currently serving as the lead pastor of Light & Life
Christian Fellowship, a multiethnic church in Long Beach,
California. Larry has been the visionary force in growing Light
& Life and in starting or rebirthing several churches in the
U.S. and Ethiopia. As an effective communicator and ministry
practitioner, Larry has frequently spoken at pastoral conferences
nationally and internationally. Larry was selected as one of the
top 100 graduates in the 100-year history of Azusa Pacific
University.