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The Contemplative Minister: Learning to Lead from the Still Centre
Ian Cowley
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Description for The Contemplative Minister: Learning to Lead from the Still Centre
Paperback. Assesses the stresses and pressures of the job. This title shows how to find a way to be prioritising a relationship with God and leading others into that relationship. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX1; HRCX4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 138.
There was a time where Christian ministry offered the opportunity to spend your life in the study of God's word, in reading and reflection, in prayer and sermon preparation, and in the quiet and faithful pastoral care of a community. The world has changed, and with it most of the expectations that govern church appointments. These days there are very few jobs in full time ministry which do not require a heroic combination of stamina, multi-tasking and change management. This book gives practical advice on how to nurture faith and a sense of calling amid the hectic life that is ministry today. Drawing on his experience of developing and leading training programmes in this area, Ian Cowley assesses the stresses and pressures of the job and shows how to grow into being a 'contemplative minister', prioritising a relationship of deepening love with God. He also offers guidance on leading others into that same relationship, without your own spiritual life running dry.
Product Details
Publisher
BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857463609
SKU
V9780857463609
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99-2
About Ian Cowley
Ian Cowley is Vocations and Spirituality Coordinator for the Diocese of Salisbury and set up and developed the Contemplative Minister programme, which has been greatly appreciated by many clergy. He has also written A People of Hope (Highland, 1993), Going Empty Handed (Monarch, 1996) and The Transformation Principle (Kingsway, 2002). He has been a parish priest in Natal, South Africa, and also in Cambridge and Peterborough.
Reviews for The Contemplative Minister: Learning to Lead from the Still Centre
This book is concerned with the central vocation of those who are called to the ordained ministry. As priests, we are called to be people in whom others may see God. There is a great hunger for God among many people today. This is a hunger which is not just for things about God, for sermons, books, talks and videos, but for God himself. A contemplative minister is someone who is called first of all to God and to his heart of love, so that the world may also know God and his love for all that he has made. Archbishop Desmond Tutu