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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I write as an ordinand who was given this by my DDO during pre-selection conference interviews, and it is the book whose ideas I still consider the most now I am actually in training.
Croft takes the threefold order (Bishop, Priest, Deacon) and illustrates how these titles all actually invoke qualities (strategic oversight, leadership, service) that are all to some extent relevant to each of these positions.
While I am broadly liberal of centre, I feel that Croft's ideas would be valuable to most considering training or in training. Croft is also endearingly honest about the failure of his attempt to "manage" his church rather than be its pastor in his own time in ministry (he is now teaching at theological college).
And his appendix on types of church, from family and personality centred to organisation centred and cell grouped is very good.
Recommended.
Croft takes the threefold order (Bishop, Priest, Deacon) and illustrates how these titles all actually invoke qualities (strategic oversight, leadership, service) that are all to some extent relevant to each of these positions.
While I am broadly liberal of centre, I feel that Croft's ideas would be valuable to most considering training or in training. Croft is also endearingly honest about the failure of his attempt to "manage" his church rather than be its pastor in his own time in ministry (he is now teaching at theological college).
And his appendix on types of church, from family and personality centred to organisation centred and cell grouped is very good.
Recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Ministry in three dimensions does not sound exciting from the title but for anyone interested in what ordained ministry should be about this book is a must. Steven Croft takes a step back and looks at ordained ministry from a biblical and ecclesiological perspective focusing on the roles as deacon priest and bishop and is reasonably successful in doing so.
This is a book which will certainly challenge some views of priestly ministry but can also inspire others to a more rounded view that fits with life in the 21st Century.
This is a book which will certainly challenge some views of priestly ministry but can also inspire others to a more rounded view that fits with life in the 21st Century.
39 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An insightive book, which explores the principal that the titles of Bishop, priest and deacon reflect roles rather than persons, and are equally applicable to the responsibilities of the laity as they are to the roles of the clergy. Ministry is to do with teamwork using different gifts rather than hierachical structures focused on what people are promoted to. A ground breaking book. Post-Charismatic, post- evangelical, post clerical. Readable.
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ministry in three dimensions
Arrived fast, great book, easy to read, some of the other religious books are to academic and you need a hebrew dictonary to translate.
Published 11 months ago by nick
Recommended for both clergy and laity
I have just read this book and have found it very helpful for my own personal ministry, but also very helpful in considering the ministry of others. I highly recommend it.
Published 18 months ago by Gillian
Very helpful and relevent to the challenges facing those who are...
I found this book to be very relevent and helpful in terms of how to tackle the issue of being relevent to a culture that is at least three if not four generations removed from... Read more
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