Understanding Ministerial Leadership: Essays Contributing to a Developing Theology of Ministry

This project began in a conversation with Ralph Lebold in the halls of Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart Indiana. Over the course of several years I had been in many different locations where significant presentations had been made related to emerging understandings of pastoral ministry. I knew that important things were being spoken which had not been heard for three decades in most Mennonite settings. New wineskins were containing new ways of understanding ministry. -- From the Preface