{"id":645,"date":"2010-01-21T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-01-21T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:55:07","slug":"a-good-minister-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/2010\/a-good-minister-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/covers\/a-good-minister.jpg\" alt=\"A Good Minister\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" width=\"199\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Anabaptists in the twenty-first century are known to be good craftsmen, good farmers, good entrepreneurs, and good neighbors. Are they good ministers?<\/p>\n<p>When facing a new calling, needing some how-to advice, or wanting to become more effective in your ministry, what a blessing to have a wise and seasoned servant to call on for advice. Such a person may not always be available. <em>A Good Minister<\/em> can help meet that need.<\/p>\n<p>This handbook for conservative Mennonite ministers addresses many important subjects, from the importance of a minister&#8217;s spiritual life, to preparing sermons, to his multiple roles as a pastor, teacher, counselor, leader, comforter, and Christian example.<\/p>\n<p>Written from the heart and life of an experienced minister, <em>A Good Minister<\/em> provides warm, practical, and inspirational counsel for the newly ordained, veteran ministers, or anyone with Christian leadership responsibilities. <em>A Good Minister <\/em>will be an appreciated and helpful reference. <\/p>\n<p>344 pages. Christian Light Publications. Howard Bean.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"green\">For more details as well as the option to buy:<\/font> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/catalog\/titles\/622.shtml\">A Good Minister<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anabaptists in the twenty-first century are known to be good craftsmen, good farmers, good entrepreneurs, and good neighbors. Are they good ministers? When facing a new calling, needing some how-to advice, or wanting to become more effective in your ministry, what a blessing to have a wise and seasoned servant to call on for advice. [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zSU2-ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}