Letters to Growing Pastors: Reflections on Ministry for Coffee-Cup Conversations

All those who enter the pastoral ministry desire to succeed. Yet they all find, surprisingly, that a number of key issues come up for consideration. Most pastors find that most of these issues appear during the first ten years of pastoring. During those years the pattern is determined, which will point to the success or to the development of habits that will reduce effectiveness and produce stumbling.

In this warm, personal, from-the-heart book, a long-time pastor not only identifies twenty...