{"product_id":"a-pastoral-rule-for-today-reviving-an-ancient-practice-paperback","title":"A Pastoral Rule for Today: Reviving an Ancient Practice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn P. Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJerry Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoseph D. Small\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe pastoral office has always been a difficult calling.\u003c\/b\u003e Today, the pastor is often asked to fulfill multiple roles: preacher, teacher, therapist, administrator, CEO. How can pastors thrive amid such demands? What is needed is a contemporary pastoral rule: a pattern for ministry that both encourages pastors and enables them to focus on what is most important in their pastoral task. This book, coauthored by three experts with decades of practical experience, explains how relying on a pastoral rule has benefited communities throughout the church's history and how such rules have functioned in the lives and work of figures such as Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, and Bonhoeffer. It also provides concrete advice on how pastors can develop and keep a rule that will help both them and their congregations to flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Andrews (PhD, University of Chicago) is the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in San Diego, California. He graduated from the Detroit Bible College (BRE), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv), Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM), the University of Pittsburgh (MA in Classics), and the University of Chicago (PhD in the Ancient Mediterranean World).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph D. Small is the retired director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Theology and Worship. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eTo Be Reformed: Living the Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProclaiming the Great Ends of the Church\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConversations With the Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGod and Ourselves: A Brief Exercise in Reformed Theology\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn P. Burgess (PhD, University of Chicago) is James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eHoly Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEncounters with Orthodoxy: How Protestant Churches Can Reform Themselves Again\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhy Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible in a Time of Church Conflict\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 14, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52754080301363,"sku":"9780830852345","price":36.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/CDsxE1WCPM9780830852345.webp?v=1764356321","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-pastoral-rule-for-today-reviving-an-ancient-practice-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}