Life in the Fish Bowl: Everyday Challenges of Pastors and Their Families
Ebook
A solid family life will help pastors focus and attentively minister to the needs of their congregation.Pastors often struggle with conflicting expectations. The most painful of these conflicts is between the expectations of their congregations, and the needs of their families. They must, at the same moment, be available to parishioners and carve out private family time. Belton Joyner knows that often the best therapy for pastors caught in this dilemma is to laugh at it. With humorous illustrations and light-hearted straight talk, he helps pastors understand their own family dynamics, the role their families play in the life of the church, and how to be an effective minister of the gospel AND a responsible spouse and parent, while living in a fishbowl.
1. Gives pastors humorous illustrations and straight talk about often conflicting expectations of the family and the congregation. 2. Provides advice and tools to balance expectations of family and the congregation. 3. Gives pastors useful information about the problems and blessings of family life.
1. Helps pastors better serve their congregation by helping their family remain solid. 2. Helps pastors balance expectations of the family and of the congregation. 3. Helps pastors understand the family dynamics and the role the family plays in church ministry.
Product Details
- Title : Life in the Fish Bowl: Everyday Challenges of Pastors and Their Families
- Author: Joyner, F. Belton Jr.
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Publication Date: 2006
- ISBN: 9781426748714