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Spiritual Gifts & Bivocational Ministry

Bivocational ministry in today's terms means a situation in which a pastor has an additional vocation or occupation.  The bivocational minister generally draws financial support from both positions, though sometimes all the support comes from the non-ministry position.  The Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership at Bethany Theological Seminary and Christian Community have been involved in a joint project which began with a study of bivocational ministry.

In the process of doing that study, Christian Community developed a renewed interest in better understanding the concept of the priesthood of all believers: the belief that all people, not just ordained or set-apart clergy, are called to ministry and have been given gifts for ministry.   The study of the opportunities and problems faced by bivocational ministers gave us new perspective on the issues involved in all people claiming their God-given ministries.  The resulting publication takes the reader through a spiritual gifts discernment process in an effort to help them come to a new understanding of their own ministries as well as a better understanding of set-apart ministry.

Forms and Formats for the Local Church
compiled by Thomas C. Rieke 

This notebook contains worksheets, forms, and formats you'll find helpful in
setting up current and planned giving within your church.

Preaching, Planning, and Plumbing: The Implications of Bivocational Ministry for the Church and for You 
by Steve Clapp, Ron Finney, and Angela Zimmerman

This resource will be of interest to congregations wanting to implement a spiritual gifts process and to improve understanding of ministry; to regional judicatory executives; and to denominational officials.   

A discussion guide is included.  

Devotional Resource

Now That I Have Cancer–I Am Whole 
by John Robert McFarland

This is a wonderful book for anyone who has cancer or who loves someone with cancer.  John Robert McFarland, an author and retired United Methodist pastor, has written out of his own experience with cancer.  He shuns easy answers, and this book will be an eye-opener to those who have not had cancer themselves.

Now That I Have Cancer–I Am Whole Audiocassette (abridged with music)

 

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