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More About This Title God's Potters
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Pastoral ministry is an occupation in flux. In this comprehensive study Jackson Carroll considers the many factors â changing roles among clergy and laypeople, the opening of ordination to women, an increasing shortage of clergy, and more â that are shaping congregations and ministers today. Building on Paulâs image of Christians as âclay jars,â Carroll paints a portrait of âGodâs pottersâ â pastors whose calling is to form their congregational jars so that they reveal rather than hide Godâs treasure.
A veteran clergy watcher, Carroll uses data from what is likely the most representative survey of Protestant and Catholic clergy ever undertaken, as well as focus group interviews and congregational responses, to take a hard look at who is doing ministry today, what it involves, and how pastors are faring in leading their congregations. Significantly, his study covers clergy from a broad range of traditions â Catholic, mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and historic black churches.
Replete with pertinent tables and figures, Godâs Potters culminates with specific strategies for strengthening pastoral leadership and nurturing excellence in ministry.
A veteran clergy watcher, Carroll uses data from what is likely the most representative survey of Protestant and Catholic clergy ever undertaken, as well as focus group interviews and congregational responses, to take a hard look at who is doing ministry today, what it involves, and how pastors are faring in leading their congregations. Significantly, his study covers clergy from a broad range of traditions â Catholic, mainline Protestant, conservative Protestant, and historic black churches.
Replete with pertinent tables and figures, Godâs Potters culminates with specific strategies for strengthening pastoral leadership and nurturing excellence in ministry.
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Jackson W. Carroll is Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. Professor Emeritus of Religion and Society at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. An ordained United Methodist minister and the recently retired director of Pulpit & Pew: Research on Pasto
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The Christian Century
"Carroll combines his own sage insights with the responses of focus groups to define excellence in ministry and to suggest means to encourage and sustain it. His section on 'Some Marks of Excellent Ministry' is alone worth the price of the book; it will be required reading in every ministry course I teach."
William H. Willimon
— Bishop of North Alabama Conference, United Methodist Church
"Jack Carroll has been listening to us pastors through his massive Pulpit & Pew survey. This illuminating book details what we have learned about ourselves and what this master church observer thinks about us as leaders in congregational formation."
"Carroll combines his own sage insights with the responses of focus groups to define excellence in ministry and to suggest means to encourage and sustain it. His section on 'Some Marks of Excellent Ministry' is alone worth the price of the book; it will be required reading in every ministry course I teach."
William H. Willimon
— Bishop of North Alabama Conference, United Methodist Church
"Jack Carroll has been listening to us pastors through his massive Pulpit & Pew survey. This illuminating book details what we have learned about ourselves and what this master church observer thinks about us as leaders in congregational formation."
