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Todays pastors are in crisis, with breakdowns, abuse, confusion, and divorces reaching epidemic proportions. Robert T. Henderson maintains that there is a realm of spiritual forces which draws congregations toward death. His solution is to energize pastors with a biblical understanding of the churchs redemptive participation in Jesus victory over the cosmic powers. They become a door of hope..

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title:A Door of Hope : Spiritual Conflict in Pastoral Ministry
author:Henderson, Robert T.
publisher:Herald Press
isbn10 | asin:0836190653
print isbn13:9780836190656
ebook isbn13:9780585230405
language:English
subjectPastoral theology, Church renewal, Demonology.
publication date:1997
lcc:BV4011.H395 1997eb
ddc:253
subject:Pastoral theology, Church renewal, Demonology.
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A Door of Hope
Spiritual Conflict in Pastoral Ministry
Robert Thornton Henderson
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Henderson, Robert T., 1928
A door of hope: spiritual conflict in pastoral ministry / Robert
T. Henderson.
p. cm.
Inlcudes bibliograhpical references.
ISBN 0-8361-9065-3 (alk. paper)
1. Pastoral theology. 2. Church renewal. 3. Demonology.
I. Title.
BV4011.H395 1997
253dc21 97-5196
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The paper used in this publication is recycled and meets the minimum
requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984.
All Bible quotations are used by permission, all rights reserved, and
unless otherwise indicated are from the The Holy Bible, New International
Version
, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society,
Zondervan Bible Publishers. NRSV, from the New Revised Standard
Version Bible
, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education
of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. NEB,
New English Bible. KJV, King James Version.
A DOOR OF HOPE
Copyright 1997 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683
Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press,
Waterloo, Ontario. N2L 6H7. All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 97-5196
International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-9065-3
Printed in the United States of America
Book and cover design by Paula M. Johnson
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To Grover and Helena, Nat and Mary,
whose faithfulness
as kingdom pastors in difficult places
gives heart to so many of us.
They are instruments of God's praise,
for whom I am profoundly thankful.
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Contents
Preface
9
1. Kingdom and Conflict in Pastoral Ministry
15
2. It's Not Neutral Out There
25
3. Achor and Hope: Caricature of Churches at the Poles
37
4. The Community of the Great King: An Ecclesiology
47
5. The Pattern Given on the Mount: Forming the Vision
58
6. Pathologies in the Church
83
7. Journey into Hope
98
8. Overcoming: Sculpting the Vision
118
9. Disciple-making, Preaching, Cross-bearing
130
10. Epilogue: The Order of Shammah
147
Notes
150
The Author
159

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Preface
Writing and teaching, especially on a topic such as spiritual conflict in pastoral ministry, dare not be done in a vacuum. Amid the daily stresses and opportunities of pastoral ministry, the writer-teacher needs meetings with God on emotionally real islands of Patmos (see Rev. 1).
I'm not impressed by those who avoid intractable pastorates or whose charismatic personalities excite congregations briefly as they move up. I am thankful for them and their gifts, but I don't identify with them. I hope that doesn't sound like sour grapes. Bookstores are full of success stories. They only leave the rest of us more frustrated.
Thousands of dreary congregations don't remember or expect anything else. A new pastor comes along periodically, like a new coat of paint on the sanctuary wall. There is brief respite from sameness, but gray soon returns.
Everything I write here is out of my own agony, excitement, adventure, and lifelong study of the mystery and disciplines of congregational renewal. My thinking emerges especially from my own tradition and its many nearly dead congregations. The situation is not unique to
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