Listening Ministry
Subtitle: Rethinking Pastoral Leadership (Integrating Spirituality Into Pastoral Counseling)
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: May 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780800631741
Subjects: Christian ministry & pastoral activity; Religion; Pastoral Care And Counseling; Religion - Pastoral Care / Counseling; Christian Ministry - Counseling & Recovery; Christianity - Pastoral Counseling; Christian leadership; Christianity; Listening; Pastoral theology; Religious aspects
First sentence: During the autumn of 1997, a group of ministers met in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for a presentation and discussion about ministry and listening.
Description: "Listening Ministry invites church leaders (professional and non-professional) to look at leadership in the church in a completely different way. It is also a work that calls forth new learning through the reflection questions provided at the end of each chapter. The book helps readers rethink the dynamics of ministry from the perspective of listening, focusing on both its individual and communal dimensions." "Hedahl's work presents a blend of theological reflection on listening, new and tested research on listening as it relates to church leadership, and suggested forms of listening education and skills assessment in a continual effort to locate and understand listening as the heart of effective and faithful ministry."--BOOK JACKET.