Book Critique

Book Critique

Summary

Stan Toler in his publication Stan Toler's Practical Guide for Pastoral Ministry hunts for to advantage young individual and future pastors founded on what he has wise in 30+ years of ministry experience.  The publication is exhaustive in ministry practicality, for it comprises seventy-five short chapters.  In alignment to condense all he has wise, Toler devotes functional recommendations for individual development, family life, ministry, authority, advising, and communication. Toler's publication boosts the individual development of pastors.  He contends that this is the pastor's life-blood (Stan , 2007).  His minutia what the pastor's life should be like in public, when no one is observing, with family, associates, his place of adoration, etc.  Practical proposals are granted to boost individual development in all avenues of life with the source being individual devotion, obedience, integrity, etc. Toler then minutia what the pastor's family life should comprise of.  He boasts functional recommendations for wedding ceremony, parenting, investments, etc.  Pastors are farther boosted to have Christ-honouring, affirming mind-set that construct up other ones in his dwelling and without (Stan , 2007).

The next part of Toler's work minutia the pastor's ministry.  He boasts proposals for effectively every facet of ministry out-of-doors the pulpit.  He makes proposals for pastoral care, carrying out funerals, weddings, designing adoration services, taking part in evangelism, clinic visitation, employing volunteers, boosting wayward constituents, etc. Toler then precedes to minutia the locality of leadership.  He assists his readers by recounting facets of large managers, proposed dream, construction a group, employing and teaching managers, etc.  He concludes this part displaying his readers how to organize confrontation, change, and how to lead in tough times. Nearing the end of his work, Toler displays his readers how to adviser others.  His minutia how a pastor can inspire and motivate hearers to connect him in the Lord's work.  He farther boosts pastors in mentoring, characterising achievement, and taking blame for their ministries. Toler concludes his publication analysing the pastor's communication.  He boasts insight into both the pulpit and the board room.  He even boosts pastors in composing and residing on the chopping for demonstration in ministry (Stan , 2007).

 

Critique

Toler's publication is full of functional recommendations for pastors.  It does well in boosting, alert, and assisting pastors to be trustworthy to the Lord all through their ministries.  There are some affirmative and contradictory facets although with this work, for there are some things that are very boosting and other things that are plainly unbiblical. This author treasured Toler's quotation to sexy immorality being a difficulty of the heart, not the situation.  It was refreshing to really discover another pastor state that legalism was not the response to sexy purity in ministry (26-27).  He is right in saying that sexy affinity is not an irresistible force.  The heart is really the difficulty for the related to sex immoral.  With one of the crop of the Spirit being self-control, one wonders with most of the responses for purity in ministry being on setting legalistic boundaries, if Christian men are increasing ...