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Transitional Ministry Today: Successful Strategies for Churches and Pastors
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About Transitional Ministry Today: Successful Strategies
Product Description Transitional ministry can be tremendously helpful for congregations in times of change, and yet, to be successful today transitional ministers and churches need to take into account the major changes in the religious landscape. From the decline of mainline churches to the rise of those who don’t identify with any religious tradition, the religious scene has changed dramatically since transitional ministry began three decades ago, and to remain vital today, the practice of transitional ministry must change as well.This book provides transitional ministers and congregations with essential information on re-thinking transitional ministry in ways that take the current religious climate into account. Ten experienced authors—including seasoned practitioners of transitional ministry and those who oversee transitional ministry denomination-wide—propose new ways to approach transitional ministry today. Chapters address practical theology, leadership, specialized interim situations, renewal during interim time, alternative models of transitional ministry, and more. Essays address a range of diverse churches in size, racial/ethnic background, and location.Transitional Ministry Today highlights how creative and cutting-edge ministry can be done during the “in-between-time” through creative thinking and practice in the face of new realities Review Norman Bendroth assembles a dozen chapter authors, each with special expertise in some area of church transition, to help wise churches that want to address their needed changes. There are numerous applications in each chapter that could be applied to any church transition, so reader would do well to read more than the chapters that specifically draw them to this book. . . .There is ample analytical material, including looking at the context of church life today and a theological basis for transitional ministry. Lengthy end notes, bibliography and index will help serious scholars who want to dig further. In fact, Transitional Ministry Today is a textbook for a doctoral seminar at Dallas Baptist University. The strength of the book, however, is the gift of being extremely practical. In every instance, it provides practical definitions of the basic issues, clear descriptions of the challenges that will be faced and tasks that must be accomplished to address each transition situation—usually from the chapter author’s own ministry. This book will remain close at hand to refer to again and again. ― The Baptist Standard This is a profound book. This book shows the deep currents at work in the churches that make ALL pastors sojourners in a changing world. We are ALL transition ministers, lay and clergy, all the time. To be alive in ministry today, you are in a confusing wilderness. This book can be a guide to your never-ending transition. -- Loren B. Mead, Episcopal priest, teacher, and consultant Norman Bendroth has collected an ensemble of contrasting voices to address the needs of congregations in transition. In these pages, readers will find inspiration, challenge, and a variety of ideas that are worth a try. -- Dan Hotchkiss, author of Governance and Ministry: Rethinking Board Leadership This book is an excellent compilation of new thinking about the context, theology, and tools for interim/transitional ministry. Knowing that all congregations are in transition, this offers new thought about how they are able to think about and manage their time in-between. -- Margaret Bain, Interim Minister, United Church of Canada Transitional Ministry Today is an invitation to fresh thinking and new practices and directions regarding pastoral transition in congregations. This book will help shape this important conversation and is "must" reading for those who work with local faith communities in times of pastoral change. -- William McKinney, President Emeritus, Pacific School of Religion About the Author Norman B. Bendroth is the coordinator for clergy and church resourc
