Don`t Blow Up Your Ministry – Defuse the Underlying Issues That Take Pastors Down

Michael Mackenzie, Marshall Shelley (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4168-4 (ISBN)

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There's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you? With vivid pictures of both self-destructive patterns and reconstructive grace, counselor Michael MacKenzie helps pastors avert moral failures and repair shipwrecked ministries. Addressing issues like shame, burnout, sexual misconduct, and more, this resource will help you become both the pastor and the person God intends you to be.

There's a ticking time bomb in your ministry. Is it you?
The pressures of pastoring are endless, leading many to burnout and depression, sexual misconduct, or substance abuse. But moral failures can be averted and shipwrecked ministries can be repaired. Counselor Michael MacKenzie, a longtime expert in helping pastors at risk, deals with the issues beneath the issues, such as shame, fear, and pain. If we don't address our own weakness and brokenness, we will hurt ourselves and those around us.
With vivid pictures of both self-destructive patterns and reconstructive grace, MacKenzie shows how to lay the groundwork for restored identity and service. God can use those exact areas of vulnerability as a catalyst to you becoming the pastor and person he intends you to be.
Defuse the bomb before it goes off. Find hope for healing and recovery.

Michael MacKenzie is a licensed professional counselor, ordained pastor, and hospital chaplain. He has served for ten years as the clinical director of Marble Retreat, a Colorado retreat center that specializes in ministering to pastors and ministry leaders in crisis. He studied marriage and family counseling at Denver Seminary and has a DMin in pastor care from Lincoln Christian University. Michael and his wife, Kari, have two sons and live in Florida.

Foreword by Marshall Shelley

Introduction: The Powers and the Dangers in the Lives of Pastors

Part One: Dangerous Occupation

1. How One Pastor Blew Up

2. Going It Alone

3. Shot by the Silver Bullet

Part Two: Problems in Ministry

4. The Fuse Is Lit

5. Megapastors: The Fallout from a Megaton Bomb

6. The Issues Beneath the Issues

7. The Bulletproof Vest: Protection from the Silver Bullet

8. Confession

9. Falling Apart or Coming Together?

10. Depression and Suicide

Part Three: Defused: Known and Loved

11. Identity and Adequacy in Christ

12. Knowing Ourselves and Being Known

13. Being Loved and Loving

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	25.11.2021
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 216 mm
Gewicht	238 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	0-8308-4168-7 / 0830841687
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4168-4 / 9780830841684
Zustand	Neuware