The sharing in Christ by sharing ourselves Root, Andrew 1974- creator text bibliography ilu Downers Grove, IL IVP 2013 monographic eng

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254 pages ; paperback ; 23 cm. 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. Andrew Root. Includes bibliographical references and index. Pastoral theology Interpersonal relations Religious aspects Christianity 253 9780830841028 (pbk. : alk. paper) 2012045946 DLC 121113 20131121152802.0 17528210 eng