MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

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008 761110s1977 tnu 00010 eng
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050 00 $aBV4011$b.S34
100 1 $aSchaller, Lyle E.
245 10 $aSurvival tactics in the parish /$cLyle E. Schaller.
260 0 $aNashville :$bAbingdon,$cc1977.
300 $a208 p. ;$c21 cm.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 1. Which chapter? -- How do you measure the length of a pastorate? -- When do you move? -- Differences in perspective -- 2. Who was your predecessor? -- How old was your predecessor? -- When was your predecessor born? -- Task leader or social leader? -- One handed or two handed? -- Shepherd or rancher? -- What about the grief? -- Identifying your predecessor -- Where are all the ministers' wives? -- 3. Be sure to thank Dorothy! -- The adult who was firstborn -- 4. Silver bearers or dead rats? -- Not if, but how and who -- Three questions on criteria -- Churchman of the week -- The year in review -- The anniversary public -- Fringe benefits -- 5. What do the signs say? -- The first baby -- Were you reared in a church basement? -- What else do they expect? -- What is reasonable? -- Reading the signs -- 6. Retraining the membership -- When is retraining needed? -- A change of pastors -- A change in goals -- A change in evaluation criteria -- Alternatives --
505 0 $a7. What do we look like to you? -- Why ask? -- What happens next? -- Three alternative approaches -- 8. Why didn't you call on my mother? -- Malpractice insurance -- What is a call? -- Calling in every home -- 9. Expand or cut back? -- Seven barriers to growth -- 10. Looking at youth ministries -- The future of the church -- Not a growth concept -- A typical pattern -- "But, what if..." -- Means or end? -- The good news -- A checklist for looking at youth ministries -- 11. Evaluating the goal setting process -- SAM -- Control -- Direction -- Benefits -- Ownership -- Balance -- Reporting -- 12. Don't be the first associate! Be the third -- Criteria for deciding -- 13. Why have a pastoral relations committee? -- General purpose -- Membership -- Duties -- 14. Following the long term pastorate -- The interim pastorate -- Rewriting the rules -- The monuments to the past -- Renegotiating the contract -- His own successor? -- Pastoral priorities -- Caution! --
505 0 $a15. The intentional interim pastor -- Why? Responsibilities of the intentional interim pastor -- Characteristics of the intentional interim pastor?
650 0 $aPastoral theology.
650 0 $aParishes.
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