Listening Ministry: Rethinking Pastoral Leadership

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Fortress Press - Religion - 123 pages
This book presents a unique blend of theological reflection on listening, new and tested research on listening as it relates to church leadership, and suggested forms of listening education and skills assessment in a continual effort to locate and understand listening as the heart of effective and faithful ministry.
 

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Introduction
1
Ministry and Listening Leadership What Are the Foundations?
6
The Framework of Pastoral Listening
9
Why Bother? The Benefits of Good Pastoral Listening
14
Summary
15
Listening and Hearing The Scriptural Tradition
17
Scriptures and Listening
18
Summary
23
Listening to the Listener
63
Summary
67
Where Two or Three Are Gathered Listening in Groups
69
Faith Community Frameworks
70
Listening in Meetings
71
Pastoral Listening Guidelines for Groups
73
A Pastoral Listening Exercise
76
A Pastor Listens to a Staff Member
77

For Discussion
25
Pastoral Listening The Theological Heritage
26
Confessional Listening
27
Textual Tributaries
30
What the Written Tradition Reveals about Listening
33
Summary
35
Listening and the Law
37
Listening and Disclosure
39
Listening and Confidentiality
40
Summary
42
Listening at Hearts Edge God Self and Community
44
Strands of the Heritage
45
Contemplative Listening with WolvinCoakley
48
What about Discernment?
49
Invitation to Faith
52
Summary
54
For Discussion
55
Corporate God ward Listening Worship and Preaching
56
A Quaker Form of Corporate Listening
79
Summary
80
Listening in Community Fragility and Watchfulness
82
Three Definitions of Therapeutic Listening Skills
83
Two Therapeutic Listening Settings
85
Listening Corporately
88
Summary
92
A Theology of Listening Attending to the Future
94
Listening in the Philosophical Tradition
96
Creating a Listening Habitat
97
The Future of Pastoral Listening Education
100
Summary
102
Historical View of Pastoral Theology Books on Listening
103
Pastoral Letter
104
Listening Course Syllabus
106
Notes
109
Bibliography
119
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