Pastor as struggling poet: exploring an alternative mode of missional church leadership

Charles Scott Kinder-Pyle

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Pastor as struggling poet: exploring an alternative mode of missional church leadership

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Charles Scott Kinder-Pyle. Pastor As Struggling Poet: Exploring an Alternative Mode of Missional Church Leadership. Columbia Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/39d7d788-81e1-45c3-9ea5-59c43fbdf173.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

C. S. Kinder-pyle. Pastor as struggling poet: exploring an alternative mode of missional church leadership. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/39d7d788-81e1-45c3-9ea5-59c43fbdf173

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Charles Scott Kinder-Pyle. Pastor As Struggling Poet: Exploring an Alternative Mode of Missional Church Leadership. Columbia Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/39d7d788-81e1-45c3-9ea5-59c43fbdf173.

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Charles Scott Kinder-Pyle

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Clergy--Office--Emerging forms

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Abstract

Purely academic and abstract discussions about the so-called Missional Church will no longer suffice. What pastors and other church leaders now require are theo-poetic forums, in which we might explore the words, images and metaphors that influence the way we do ministry in the postmodern world. The biblical text itself yields an abundance of possible literary and mythic associations -- many of which have compelling resonance with those who feel estranged and alienated from the institutional church community. This project offers analysis of truly 'raw data,' which does not include numerical gauges and statistical percentages. The most insightful data in the case of the Crossroads Presbyterian Church of Limerick, Pennsylvania, arises from the primordial creative capacity of those who respond to passages like Matthew 13:52 and testify, in word and in deed, to the Truth of the ever-elusive and unfolding Gospel Story. In this regard, pastors are encouraged to submit themselves to the scribal training of Jesus of Nazareth and to embrace an identity as struggling poet.

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