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Summer 1984: Roles & Expectations

Volume 5
Summer

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In this Issue
FROM THE EDITOR
Terry C. Muck
Pleasing God & Pleasing People
A Pasadena pastor talks about parallel loyalties -- and what he does when they collide.
Paul Cedar
Outreach
Getting the Real Story: A Guide to Candidating
Eighteen questions to ask before you say yes
Douglas G. Scott
The Danger of Aiming Too High
What happens to pastors who push themselves harder than God asks.
Louis McBurney with David McCasland
Discipleship
The Tightrope: A Case Study in Church Discipline
A true account of confronting adultery.
Tim Stafford
Outreach
FOUR LAWS FOR CONFRONTATION
Lehman Hotchkiss
Discipleship |Outreach
Confessions of a Small-Group Leader
A lay leader tells what he'll do differently last time.
Joe Higginbotham
LEADERSHIP BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paul Borthwick
Discipleship
IDEAS THAT WORK
Protecting the Church Treasurer
Dan W. Hess
Discipleship
How to Beat the Youth Ministry Blues
An antidepressant for times when teens skip out, dollars run short, and buses break down.
Rickey Short
The Way of Contentment
Richard Lewis
They Like Me, They Like Me Not
How to respond to hidden agendas and private opinions
James A Davey with Warren Bird
The Sound of Clashing Expectations
Of course the pastor will do ______. Filling that blank often leads to wars and rumors of wars.
Richard P. Hansen
Discipleship
What Do You Expect from a PK?
Jim and Sally Conway
Discipleship |Outreach
The Best Advice I've Received
The Ministry of Small Talk
Eugene H. Peterson
Outreach
Renewal that Lasts
How God's church- -- once awakened -- can keep from dozing off again.
Howard A. Snyder
Outreach
The Cambridge Diet for Fat Churches
Cal LeMon
Leadership
PEOPLE IN PRINT
Outreach
Seminary & Congregation: A Lovers' Quarrel?
With responses from two seminary presidents (George Brushaber, David McKenna) and two pastors (Martin Copenhaver, William Willimon).
Leonard I. Sweet
Worship's Mysterious Inner Urge: Two Views
John W. Drakeford, David Shelley
LEADERSHIP FORUM
Making or Breaking the Pastoral Image
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER
Harold L. Myra
THE ART OF ARTS
Gregory of Nazianzus

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