A Time for Change?: Re-Visioning Your Call

James Hightower; W. Craig Gilliam

doi:10.5771/9781566996792

Summary

Many professional ministers struggle at some point with the desire to pursue another career. For those at such a place on their journey, this book poses questions, offers practical suggestions gathered from other ministers who have traveled this path, and shares insights from the authors' own experiences of career change.

The authors emphasize two principles. First, entertaining the possibility of leaving professional ministry is not to be condemned or viewed as a sign of failure; rather, it should be accepted as part of the spiritual journey. Second, a new career apart from the institutional church does not mean one is leaving the ministry, but simply that one is changing the mode of expressing that ministry.

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Copyright Year: 2000
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56699-233-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-56699-679-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 116
Product Type: Monograph

1. CONTENTS No access
2. FOREWORD No access
3. PREFACE No access
CHAPTER 1: The Original Vision of Our Call No access Pages 1 - 22
CHAPTER 2: Exploring God's Call No access Pages 23 - 50
CHAPTER 3: Managing Anxiety in Times of Change No access Pages 51 - 70
CHAPTER 4: Surviving the Change No access Pages 71 - 92
CHAPTER 5: Can I Find Myself Again after Leaving the Ministry? No access Pages 93 - 116