The Measure of Our Success
An Impassioned Plea to Pastors
Shawn Lovejoy(Author)
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Published on 1. May 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-8010-1460-4 (ISBN)
Description
How do pastors measure success? Is it through the number of people who fill the pews on Sunday morning? Is it tied to programs, building projects, or salary? Is it about how much technology they use or what their worship band sounds like? Shawn Lovejoy has seen all of these measures of success lead pastors toward pride, self-reliance, loneliness, isolation, exhaustion, and, in the most extreme cases, self-destruction. In this honest and encouraging book, he calls pastors back to the "main thing"-the call to love people and make disciples-and to measure their success the way God does. Using Scripture, personal examples, and case studies, Lovejoy gently leads pastors back to their first love, and in doing so he leads them toward a more effective and joy-filled ministry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ada, MI
United States
Publishing group
Baker Publishing Group
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8010-1460-4 (9780801014604)
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05/2012
Baker Publishing Group
€10.49
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Person
Shawn Lovejoy is the founding and lead pastor of Mountain Lake Church, the directional leader of churchplanters.com, and the author of shawnlovejoy.com. For more than a decade, Shawn has led his church to go multisite, to plant churches, and to minister in some of the most challenging places in the world. Churchplanters.com has become one of the most influential church planting ministries in the world.