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Becoming the Pastor You Hope to Be unapologetically urges clergy
readers to develop practices that will help them become more
excellent ministers. A long-time field educator, now serving as a
denominational staff person responsible for ministerial formation,
Barbara Blodgett believes excellence is a matter of doing simple
things with care and consistency. Ministers who commit themselves
to excellence will grow and flourish, and even become happier in
ministry. Blodgett urges ministers to resist praise and instead to
ask for feedback, to seek the company of mentors who are better
than the reader is at what he or she does, to be vulnerable before
their peers in order to learn from them, and to define themselves
as a leader who does not merely take activist stances but risks
entering into deep, transformative relationships. Improvement in
ministry, Blodgett argues, comes about not through extraordinary
leaps and bounds but rather through adoptingsimple habits and
carrying through on small but thoughtfully made choices. Addressed
to ministers, ecoming the Pastor You Hope to Be is also a valuable
resource for discernment committees, Christian educators, leaders
of continuing education and lay education programs, and all those
who partner with theological schools to help form ministers, both
lay and ordained.
Behind all the issues of ministerial conduct and character lies a
simple reality. The heart of ministerial ethics and integrity,
argues Barbara Blodgett, is trust??????trust expected, trust
earned, trust practiced. Trust, she says, is undermined by three
trust-busters common in the church: secrecy, gossip, and lying. For
Blodgett, trust is not an emotion or intention but a transaction.
People entrust each other with things they value, and that
interaction endows a relationship. In the aggregate, they create
community. By focusing on crucial practices of trust, a unique new
framework for ministerial identity and ethics is created.
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