Clergy have a pivotal role in creating and nurturing church communities in which all people can grow up into Christ. This book explores the nature of that role by considering key similarities with the essential but often conflicting demands of motherhood. Like mothers, clergy need to preserve and hold people faithfully, while encouraging them to grow, take initiatives and become more confident and self-supporting. This book will help clergy to think about how this is achieved through the myriad of 'small' things they do from day to day, highlighting skills such as comforting, cherishing and multi-attending - skills that are centrally important but often unarticulated and undervalued.
- ISBN10 0281070245
- ISBN13 9780281070244
- Publish Date 17 April 2014
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint SPCK Publishing
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English