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This wise and practical guide provides clear insight for both pastors and congregations on how to begin a healthy, productive new pastorate or make a fresh start in an ongoing ministry. Author Kennon L. Callahan, today's most sought-after church consultant, has conferred with thousands of pastors and congregations, helping them discover their strengths and gifts and showing them how to work together in service to their community and mission. Here he offers fresh suggestions on how pastors and congregations can ensure a solid future together, whether they are newly beginning or beginning again.
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The iconoclastic Harvard author of American Book Award-winning Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (1993) collates his scholarly and popular writings and interviews from 1982-1998 on: "the making of an American radical democrat of African descent," modernity and its discontents, American pragmatism, progressive Marxist theory, radical democratic politics, prophetic Christian thought, the arts, and race and difference. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) mission"; and they must experience God and advance the gifts that God has blessed them with. Basing his advice on these four basic principles, Callahan discusses the obstacles of the first few months of ministry, successful preaching, and ways to have fun with a new congregation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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