Short description
Drawing on his own experience in shepherding a church through a difficult building program, the author explains how to survive the storms of pastoral ministry spiritually and emotionally.
Long description
The context was a building program for an urban congregation.;The beginning bore no omens of controversy.;But before long, both the pastor (the author) and the congregation found themselves in a storm that threatened the church's very existence and the pastor's future in ministry.;It is common in this kind of storm that neither the preacher nor his flock will expect to hear from God.;But the arresting message of this book is that it is often through the preaching itself that God speaks to the issues of conflict.;It is through preaching that the issues are resolved, and neither the pastor nor the people are left unchanged.;By example and by precept this book shows how to weather a storm in the only successful way--by preaching through it under the guiding hand of a compassionate God who knows our human anguish.;This is a book you cannot afford to ignore.