Faithful Endurance: The Joy of Shepherding People for a Lifetime (The Gospel Coalition)
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Overview
This book offers pastors examples of long-term faithfulness in ministry and practical wisdom from veteran pastors for real-life issues. The essays in this book will help you walk that road of sacrificial love with confidence and joy. It is a profound responsibility to shepherd people for a lifetime. Each chapter begins with a question that reflects a scenario commonly faced by pastors. And the answer, from a veteran pastor, seeks to apply godly wisdom in response.
- Explores scenarios commonly faced by pastors
- Examines the sacrificial nature of pastoral ministry
- Provides insightful wisdom from experienced pastors
- Ministry Has Left Me Spiritually Listless - Tim Keller
- Is It Time for Me to Go? - D. A. Carson
- My Preaching Always Sounds the Same - Bryan Chapell
- I’m under the Fire of Criticism - Dan Doriani
- I Would Never Have Attended the Church I Now Lead - Tom Ascol
- My Critics Are a Burden for My Wife - Juan R. Sanchez with Jeanine D. Sanchez
- They’ve Left, and I’m Crushed! - Dave Harvey
- Does Staying in a Small Rural Church Make Me a Failure? - Mark McCullough
- I’m Feeling Tired, Worn Out, and in Need of a Break - John Starke
- My Church Has Outgrown My Gifts - Scott Patty
- How Am I Going to Make It Financially - Brandon Shields
- I’ve Come to Doubt My Calling - Jeff Robinson Sr.
- Afterword: An Interview with John MacArthur
- Tim Keller
- D. A. Carson
- Dan Doriani
- Tom Ascol
- Juan R. Sanchez
- Jeanine D. Sanchez
- Dave Harvey
- Mark McCullough
- John Starke
- Scott Patty
- Brandon Shields
- Jeff Robinson Sr.
- John MacArthur
- Collin Hansen
In ministry, you need company—and the wiser the company, the better. Not all of us enjoy mutually encouraging pastoral friendships with the likes of the contributors to this volume, but here they welcome you into their own lives and experiences and doubts and heartbreaks and trials. In so doing, they offer counsel and hope for those in ministry. And we all need that.
—J. Ligon Duncan III, Chancellor, CEO, and John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary
Pastors get worn down, discouraged, depleted, and depressed. This short but pastorally rich book will prove to be a spiritual tonic for pastors. I recommend reading and meditating on the essays in this book, which will provide strength and solace for the journey.
—Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The apostle Paul wrote, ‘Follow me, as I follow Christ.’ We grow not only by learning true concepts but also by following faithful people. In Faithful Endurance, a team of veteran pastors invites younger pastors to follow them into the buffetings and temptations of ministry, offering the path of wisdom that the Lord faithfully provides for every new generation. I wish this fine book had been available to me when I was a young pastor.
—Ray Ortlund, Lead Pastor, Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee
- Title: Faithful Endurance: The Joy of Shepherding People for a Lifetime
- Editors: Collin Hansen and Jeff Robinson Sr.
- Publisher: Crossway
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 160
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: Pastoral Theology
Collin Hansen (MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) serves as the editorial director for the Gospel Coalition. He previously worked as an associate editor for Christianity Today magazine and coedits the Cultural Renewal series with Tim Keller. He and his wife belong to Redeemer Community Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and he serves on the advisory board of Beeson Divinity School.
Jeff Robinson Sr. (PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is a senior editor for the Gospel Coalition and serves as the lead pastor for Christ Community Church of Louisville. He also serves as adjunct professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the coauthor of To the Ends of the Earth: Calvin’s Missional Vision and Legacy.