One man's experience of the first few years after seminary--mortification and edification.

Good leadership is a limited resource that must be carefully nurtured and renewed. David McKenna advocates a great idea that could go far toward eliminating leadership frustration, waste, and break-down.

A look at pastoral care by a minister who spent six weeks flat on his back.

Burn out is a common hazard that need not destroy its victims.

Lay counseling accomplishes many things: it involves members in the work of the church, it provides a fulfilling ministry for lay persons, it takes a load off the pastor. It also solves people's problems.

How can the counseling demands of the 1980s be met by the local church? Five leaders share their observations.

With deep concern Norman Shawchuck asks, Are you a people shrinker?

Howard Hendricks offers some practical suggestions for evaluating local church ministry.

He watched his dreams crumble at Circle Church. Did that failure invalidate his ministry?

Conflict. Crisis. The corporate church often does not see its own power to make and destroy its servants.

What can be done about the fact that in many churches a pastoral crisis occurs about every 18 months?

Can people who are vastly different really learn to love one another? How can a caring fellowship be built upon such differences?

How can staff members be true to themselves and follow a leader with whom they disagree?

An interview with Dr. Louis McBurney

You're told to be vulnerable--to disclose yourself honestly to those around you. But like most of us you're painfully aware that honest self-disclosure can blow up in your face.