Ten Habits for Effective Minis

<p>Studies reveal that many pastors are stressed out discouraged and tempted to leave the ministry. Giving practical advice and often drawing on examples from his own experience Lowell O. Erdahl offers support and wise counsel for new and experience clergy alike. Erdahl shows that to provide life-giving ministries pastors must develop ten key habits including:<p>bonding with their people<p>having something to say and saying it well<p>becoming lifelong learners<p>picking their battles wisely and fighting them fairly<p>exercising gift-evoking leadership and<p>respecting boundaries</p>We are called in Christ to be life-giving pastors -- proclaiming bearing and sharing in attitude words and action the new abundant full 'Life' with a capital L that Christ came to give.</p>