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.