Sustainable Ministry : How to Lead (and When to Nap)

Marcuson, Margaret J.

ABC-CLIO（2026/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798216378044

Full Description

If you're a pastoral leader, you're likely finding ministry tougher now than ever. The old way of doing church no longer works. Numbers continue to go down. You don't know what to do to move forward. You want a sense of satisfaction in your life and work. Instead, you struggle with an overwhelming sense of failure and loss.

Sustainable Ministry: How to Lead in Tough Times will help you develop a more vibrant, more effective relationship with your work, with other church leaders, your congregants, and with someone you may neglect: yourself. This book isn't about the technique of ministry leadership. It's about you and how you bring your best self to your ministry.

Celebrated clergy consultant Margaret Marcuson shares a clear message: Church leadership is you in thoughtful relationship with the work you do and with those you lead. The purpose of the book is to help pastors find a way to better experience their life in ministry now so they can use their best gifts to help the church and to change lives. The result is nothing less than greater satisfaction in ministry and greater capacity to contribute for the long-term sustainability of your congregation.

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Are You Exhausted?
2. Get Clear: What Is Your Work?
3. Get Connected: Who Do You Need to Relate to?
4. Get Reflective: Who Are You?
5. Get to the Money: What Is Your Role?
6. Communication: Can You Get Free of Needing People to Agree?
7. Get Focused: What Do You Want to Do Most?
8. Get Prayerful: What Matters in Ministry?

Note to the Reader
Appendix 1. Sustain yourself in Ministry: An Inventory
Appendix 2. "What do you want" Planning Guide
Appendix 3. Staff Planning Questionnaire
Appendix 4. Money/Stewardship Tips
Recommended Resources
Notes
About the Author