As one who spends a great deal of time with students who are being shaped to lead the people of God in ministry, I can tell you that much of the attention in the literature is given to the pragmatic tasks of ministry. Most of these books are not needed.
It’s not to say that students don’t need informative accounts of the practice of ministry—far from it! But they are inundated on a regular basis not only with voices promising them better and more apt ways of “loving on people.” All of the attention on the tricks of the trade becomes dull background noise, noise which obscures a more fundamental and far more boring question: who are the people of God?
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Myles Werntz
Myles Werntz is the author of Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology's Revolutionary Century. He writes at Taking Off and Landing and teaches at Abilene Christian University.
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