| Category: |
Church Ministry
Christian Living |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Size: | 5.5 in x 8.5 in |
| Weight: | 10.14 ounces |
| ISBN-10: | 1-4335-4137-8 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4335-4137-7 |
| ISBN-UPC: | 9781433541377 |
| Case Quantity: | 52 |
| Published: | January 31, 2015 |
Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Paperback Edition
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Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
Paperback Edition
After traveling the globe and speaking to thousands of churches worldwide, Paul David Tripp has discovered a serious problem within pastoral culture.
Dangerous Calling reveals the truth that the culture surrounding our pastors is spiritually unhealthy—an environment that actively undermines the well-being and effectiveness of our church leaders and thus the entire church body.
Here is a book that both diagnoses and offers cures for issues that impact every member and church leader, and gives solid strategies for fighting the all-important war that rages in our churches today.
Downloadable study questions are available.
Author:
Paul David Tripp (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is a pastor, an award-winning author, and an international conference speaker. He has written numerous books, including Lead; Parenting; and the bestselling devotional New Morning Mercies. His not-for-profit ministry exists to connect the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Tripp lives in Philadelphia with his wife, Luella, and they have four grown children.
Product Details
Table of Contents
Part 1: Examining Pastoral Culture
1. Headed for Disaster
2. Again and Again
3. Big Theological Brains and Heart Disease
4. More than Knowledge and Skill
5. Joints and Ligaments
6. The Missing Community
7. War Zones
Part 2: The Danger of Losing Your Awe (Forgetting Who God Is)
8. Familiarity
9. Dirty Secrets
10. Mediocrity
11. Between the Already and the Not Yet
Part 3: The Danger of Arrival (Forgetting Who You Are)
12. Self-Glory
13. Always Preparing
14. Separation
15. So, What Now?
Endorsements
"Dangerous Calling is a dangerous book to read. It is also a book every person in ministry should read. It will cut you to the heart and bring massive conviction if you read it with a humility and ask God to expose sins deeply hidden in your soul. It cuts, but it also provides biblical remedies for healing. I would love to put this book in the hand of every seminarian who walks on my campus."
Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
“Our wives, children, and the members we serve will have a new husband, father, and pastor by Friday if we follow Tripp’s example and give a humble and honest reading of this book—one with our inner Pharisee and scribe turned off. We will see the need to save our selves from a very dark and destructive force working against pastors: undiagnosed pastoral self-righteousness. With much wisdom and conviction, Tripp’s Dangerous Calling preaches the gospel of grace to the men who are preaching the gospel Sunday after Sunday to everyone but themselves.”
Eric C. Redmond, Professor of Bible, Moody Bible Institute; Associate Pastor of Preaching and Teaching, Calvary Memorial Church, Oak Park, Illinois
“Few would regard a pastor’s role as a dangerous calling, but few people are as qualified and insightful as Paul Tripp to penetrate the snares and potential pitfalls associated with pastoral ministry. Fewer still would prescribe such gospel based and local church rooted remedies. This excellent volume should be read, re-read & applied.”
Terry Virgo, Founder, Newfrontiers