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Critical Acclaim for In the Name of Jesus
In the Name of Jesus draws provocative and stimulating conclusions about the meaning and significance of Christian ministry.
Christianity Today
One of the most powerful books I have read in a long time.
Deacon Digest
Anyone involved in Christian ministry needs to read this book.
The Theological Educator
An incisive, moving book.
Review and Expositor
Nouwen writes succinctly, with clarity and ease.
Sojourners
An absolute treasure. There is more packed between the covers of this little book that adults will find helpful to living a Christian life than youll find in many a volume three times its size.
Our Sunday Visitor
It will not take you long to read this excellent little book, but be prepared for it to occupy your thoughts for quite a while.
Chattanooga Times
A small but powerful volume about ministry.
Catholic Book Club
Although the books subtitle indicates that it is directed towards leaders, the message is more universal.... A wonderful book.
NPH
He packs in more wisdom than most authors do in books ten times the size.
Leadership
Although he is addressing those who in one way or another are in a leadership role, this simple, Gospel-based message is relevant to everyone.
Prairie Messenger
With passion and intelligence, Nouwen speaks to the current crisis in ministry, offering a powerful apologetic for Christian ministry.
Restoration Quarterly
Nouwens trademark honesty and compassion permeate every page.... Every church library should have a Nouwen collection, and this title should be in it.
Church and Synagogue Library Association
The overall message of the book is as touching and moving as we have seen before in Nouwens work. The image of the servant-leader among the people is one that needs to be pointed out again and again in the church.
Sisters Today
A jewel.
Catholic Twin Circle
Savor the insights of a gifted writer, a deep thinker, and, above all, a lover of Jesus.
Christian Home and School
These reflections come out of his own openness to personal struggle and growthin this case, recent experiences as priest at a LArche community for the mentally handicapped.... His message movingly conveys how his relationships with these broken people have touched him deeply in return. Heart-warming and provocative.
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HENRI J. M. NOUWEN
A Crossroad Book
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1989 by Henri J. M. Nouwen
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To Murray McDonnell
In the preparation of this little book I have received invaluable help. I would like especially to express my gratitude to Connie Ellis for her secretarial assistance, to Conrad Wieczorek for his skillful editing of the manuscript, and to Sue Mosteller for her insightful comments on the content. I also want to say thanks to Bob Heller, the president of Crossroad, who was the first to suggest publication of this text in book form.
The most encouraging and life-giving response to In the Name of Jesus came from Gordon Cosby and Diana Chambers of the Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.
They told me that their new Servant Leadership School is trying to form Christian leaders based on the vision expressed in these pages. The Servant Leadership School wants to nurture a Christian leadership in which a life of prayer, confession, and forgiveness in community is intimately united with a life of ministry among the inner-city poor.
The Servant Leadership School offers a unique opportunity to pursue a spiritual journey in which unceasing prayer and committed service can be lived as the two inseparable qualities of the call of Jesus.
I am deeply grateful to know that what is written here is finding a very concrete expression in a new school of Christian discipleship.
When my friend Murray McDonnell visited me at the Daybreak community near Toronto, he asked me whether I would be willing to speak about Christian leadership in the twenty-first century, the occasion being the fifteenth anniversary of the Center for Human Development in Washington, D.C. Although I had only recently begun my work as a priest at Daybreak, one of the LArche communities for mentally handicapped people, I did not want to disappoint Murray, who, as chairman of the board of the Center for Human Development, had given much of his time and energy to its growth. I also knew Father Vincent Dwyer, the Centers founder, and had great admiration for his dedicated work in helping priests and ministers in their search for emotional and spiritual wholeness. So I said yes.
But after having said yes to the invitation, I realized that it was far from easy to come up with a sane perspective on Christian leadership for the twenty-first century. The audience would mostly be priests who were themselves deeply involved in ministry to their fellow priests. What would I be able to say to people who are thinking day in and day out about the future of the priesthood and the ministry in the church? I also wondered how it would be possible to look ahead of me, into the new century, when I considered that nobody in the 1950s could have foreseen the situation of most priests today. Still, the more I said to myself, I cant do this, the more I discovered within me a desire to put into words my thoughts about ministry as they had evolved since my joining the Daybreak community. For many years I had taught courses about ministry. Now, having stepped away from the academic life and having been called to be a priest for mentally handicapped people and their assistants, I asked myself, How do I now live from day to day after having spoken for twenty years to young men and women preparing themselves for ministry? How do I think about my ministry and how do these thoughts affect my everyday words and actions?
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