01985cam a2200265 i 4500 17528210 AU-EpEBC 20131121152802.0 121113t2013 ilu b 001 0 eng 2012045946 9780830841028 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC eng DLC rda NEMB pcc 253 23 EW 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. Pastoral theology. Interpersonal relations Religious aspects Christianity. ddc 37427 37427 0 0 ddc 0 0 253 Pastoral Theology MAIN MAIN OS 2013-11-21 Mosaic Resources 14.37 1 2 253/ROO 14499 2015-08-05 00:00:00 2014-07-10 1 50.00 2013-11-21 AM