Stephen McCutchan

Being Pastor in an Anxious Society Stephen McCutchan

This book addresses the challenge of spiritual leadership in an age of fear and distrust. Honestly facing the imperfections of churches, it seeks to offer a strategy by which pastors can lead and affirm the ways in which a congregation can confess the imperfections and be open to God's spirit creatively working among them. It also offers a strategy by which congregations can awaken our experience of the One Body of Christ and strengthen the bonds among churches in our neighborhood and around the world. It seeks to be a book that enables people to have hopeful insight and renewed energy while being honest about the realities and challenges faced by our churches and our society. It is a guide for how people can have the courage of faith and take risks in ministry within the community of faith. It trusts that the call of God is a valid response in our lives.