Transitional Ministry Today Successful Strategies for Churches and Pastors [Hardcover]

This is a profound book. This book shows the deep currents at work in the churches that make ALL pastors sojourners in a changing world. ?We are ALL transition ministers, lay and clergy, all the time. ?To be alive in ministry today, you are in a confusing wilderness. ?This book can be a guide to your never-ending transition.Norman Bendroth has collected an ensemble of contrasting voices to address the needs of congregations in transition. In these pages, readers will find inspiration, challenge, and a variety of ideas that are worth a try.This book is an excellent compilation of new thinking about the context, theology, and tools for interim/transitional ministry. Knowing that all congregations are in transition, this offers new thought about how they are able to think about and manage their time in-between.Transitional Ministry Today is an invitation to fresh thinking and new practices and directions regarding pastoral transition in congregations. This book will help shape this important conversation and is must reading for those who work with local faith communities in times of pastoral change.Transitional ministry can be tremendously helpful for congregations in times of change, and yet, to be successful today transitional ministers and churches need to take into account the major changes in the religious landscape. This book offers ten essays to help transitional ministers and congregations understand the current climate and transition successfully.Transitional ministry can be tremendously helpful for congregations in times of change, and yet, to be successful today transitional ministers and churches need to take into account the major changes in the religious landscape. From the decline of mainline churches to the rise of those who dont identify with any religious tradition, the religious scene has changed dramatically since transitional ministry began three decades ago, and to remain vital today, the practice of transitional ministry must change as well.ThlS†