The relational pastor :
Root, Andrew, 1974-
The relational pastor : sharing in Christ by sharing ourselves / Andrew Root. - Downers Grove, IL : IVP, 2013. - 254 pages ; paperback ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reshifting pastoral ministry: an introduction --
New energy, new communications, new consciousness ... new ministry --
Transitioning from the pastor as self-help entertainer: what relational ministry can't & must become --
Sipping the sweet, hard liquor of individualism --
All the lonely people: pastoral ministry & the field of the personal --
What is a person?: recovering a Christian definition of people --
Empathy, it's a spirit thing: why we're built for relationships --
Can I read your mind?: brain science & relational ministry --
New visions of incarnational ministry: beyond our being incarnate --
Relational ministry as gift: union, need & the pastor --
Sharing is more than what you learned in kindergarten: relational ministry & the hypostatic union --
The place between: how we encounter Christ in relationships --
A quick Pauline excursion: sharing and place in Paul: it's all about the in --
Will you pray for me?: prayer as the essential practice for relational ministry --
What this looks like: how story, teaching & preaching fit --
I've got to run the church don't I?: leadership as letting relationships flow --
Portraits of relational pastors.
9780830841028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2012045946
Pastoral theology.
Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
253
The relational pastor : sharing in Christ by sharing ourselves / Andrew Root. - Downers Grove, IL : IVP, 2013. - 254 pages ; paperback ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reshifting pastoral ministry: an introduction --
New energy, new communications, new consciousness ... new ministry --
Transitioning from the pastor as self-help entertainer: what relational ministry can't & must become --
Sipping the sweet, hard liquor of individualism --
All the lonely people: pastoral ministry & the field of the personal --
What is a person?: recovering a Christian definition of people --
Empathy, it's a spirit thing: why we're built for relationships --
Can I read your mind?: brain science & relational ministry --
New visions of incarnational ministry: beyond our being incarnate --
Relational ministry as gift: union, need & the pastor --
Sharing is more than what you learned in kindergarten: relational ministry & the hypostatic union --
The place between: how we encounter Christ in relationships --
A quick Pauline excursion: sharing and place in Paul: it's all about the in --
Will you pray for me?: prayer as the essential practice for relational ministry --
What this looks like: how story, teaching & preaching fit --
I've got to run the church don't I?: leadership as letting relationships flow --
Portraits of relational pastors.
9780830841028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2012045946
Pastoral theology.
Interpersonal relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
253
