عنوان

Survival tactics in the parish /

(Number (ISBN

0687407575

(Number (ISBN

9780687407576

Number

b787004

Title Proper

Survival tactics in the parish /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Lyle E. Schaller.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Nashville :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Abingdon,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1977.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

208 pages ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Introduction -- 1. Which chapter? -- How do you measure the length of a pastorate? -- When do you move? -- Differences in perspective -- 2. Who was your predecessor? -- How old was your predecessor? -- When was your predecessor born? -- Task leader or social leader? -- One handed or two handed? -- Shepherd or rancher? -- What about the grief? -- Identifying your predecessor -- Where are all the ministers' wives? -- 3. Be sure to thank Dorothy! -- The adult who was firstborn -- 4. Silver bearers or dead rats? -- Not if, but how and who -- Three questions on criteria -- Churchman of the week -- The year in review -- The anniversary public -- Fringe benefits -- 5. What do the signs say? -- The first baby -- Were you reared in a church basement? -- What else do they expect? -- What is reasonable? -- Reading the signs -- 6. Retraining the membership -- When is retraining needed? -- A change of pastors -- A change in goals -- A change in evaluation criteria -- Alternatives -- 7. What do we look like to you? -- Why ask? -- What happens next? -- Three alternative approaches -- 8. Why didn't you call on my mother? -- Malpractice insurance -- What is a call? -- Calling in every home -- 9. Expand or cut back? -- Seven barriers to growth -- 10. Looking at youth ministries -- The future of the church -- Not a growth concept -- A typical pattern -- "But, what if ..." -- Means or end? -- The good news -- A checklist for looking at youth ministries -- 11. Evaluating the goal setting process -- SAM -- Control -- Direction -- Benefits -- Ownership -- Balance -- Reporting -- 12. Don't be the first associate! Be the third -- Criteria for deciding -- 13. Why have a pastoral relations committee? -- General purpose -- Membership -- Duties -- 14. Following the long term pastorate -- The interim pastorate -- Rewriting the rules -- The monuments to the past -- Renegotiating the contract -- His own successor? -- Pastoral priorities -- Caution! -- 15. The intentional interim pastor -- Why? Responsibilities of the intentional interim pastor -- Characteristics of the intentional interim pastor?

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Parishes.

Pastoral theology.

Parishes.

Pastoral theology.

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Book number

Schaller, Lyle E.

Date of Transaction

20201207004436.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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