Sentences with phrase «of pastoral work»

Not a day goes by in which I do not desperately miss many elements of pastoral work.

You clearly have strong experiences of pastoral work and work rebranding.

Precisely because of the specialized nature of pastoral work at this ethnic level, the pastor has peculiar dilemmas.

And in the midst of this pastoral work he died, at Schwerin in northern Germany, in 1686.

The theologian Richard Lischer offers a brief meditation that, for my money, ought to be required reading for all seminarians who want their ministries to follow a biblical paradigm - a paradigm that Lischer finds in the ministry of St. Paul to the early Christian gentile churches: a ministry that for all its messiness finds as its center the repeated embodiment of the death and resurrection of Jesus in the daily tosses and turns of pastoral work with the people of God.