When It's Time to Move: A Guide to Changing Churches (The Leadership Library)

By Paul D. Robbins

Book Overview

This book provides timely help for the pastor in transition. Eleven specially chosen writers whose ministerial experience ranges from Episcopalian to Nazarene, from Quebec to California, tell of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917463072
• ISBN13: 9780917463075
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: W Pub Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Practical Guide When Making This Challenging Decision

No one can tell you what the experience of changing churches is like unless they have been there! This book is presented with wise counsel from ministers who have been there. Much of the advice you receive first hand on this subject is less than adequate because it is not thorough. When you study all of these essays together they are sincere, simple, and complete. This is a must read for those who are stuggling with the choice to move. The one knock I would make on the book is that sometimes it is not time to move and the book says very little about when to stay where you are. More detail should be given to the decision making process.

Helpful Book on Pastors Changing Churches

Paul Robbins is the editor of this book, but each chapter is actually written by a different person. Most of the authors are pastors, and most of the chapters were originally published as articles in Leadership Journal. Various chapters discuss deciding when you should look for a new position, how to candidate (with very helpful questions to ask a search committee) and how to get off to a good start at your new church. The book is not so much about how to decide if its time to move, but rather when you've already decided, here is how you go about things. This is the most helpful book I have read on the subject.