Part-Time is Plenty
eBook - ePub

Part-Time is Plenty

Thriving without Full-Time Clergy

  1. 182 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Part-Time is Plenty

Thriving without Full-Time Clergy

About this book

Churches experiencing numerical and financial decline may dread the day when they can no longer afford a full-time pastor. Freeing up funds that would go to a full-time salary sure would help the budgetmaybe even enough to turn things aroundbut is it even possible to run effective ministries with just a half- or quarter-time professional? Journalist and part-time pastor Jeffrey MacDonald says yeschurches can grow more vibrant than ever, tapping into latent energy and undiscovered gifts, revitalizing worship, and engaging in more effective ministry with the community.Readers get a much-needed playbook forhelping congregations to thrive with a part-time ministry model. They learn to see the model in a new light: to stop viewing part-time as a problem to be eradicated and to instead embrace it as a divine gift that facilitates a higher level of lay engagement, responsibility, playfulness, and creativity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advance Praise for Part-Time Is Plenty
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Goodbye to Bias, Stigma, and Idols
  11. 2. Sure, I Can Give a Sermon
  12. 3. From Lead Actor to Best Supporting Cast
  13. 4. Is That a Real Church?
  14. 5. Learning for the Many
  15. 6. Teaming Up
  16. Notes