What Clergy Do: Especially When It Looks Like Nothing

Clergy have a pivotal role in creating and nurturing church communities in which all people can grow up into Christ. This book explores the nature of that role by considering key similarities with the essential but often conflicting demands of motherhood. Like mothers, clergy need to preserve and hold people faithfully, while encouraging them to grow, take initiatives and become more confident and self-supporting. This book will help clergy to think about how this is achieved through the myriad of 'small' things they do from day to day, highlighting skills such as comforting, cherishing and multi-attending - skills that are centrally important but often unarticulated and undervalued.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: SPCK Publishing
Published: 04/17/2014
ISBN: 9780281070244
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d