On the Wall with Sword and Trowel: The Challenges and Conflicts of Ministry - Paperback

by Sanford Zensen (Author)

Future pastors and servant-leaders are taught the much-needed "tools of the trade"--the principles of hermeneutics, how to exegete a passage, put a sermon together, conduct a wedding, manage a funeral, oversee administrative meetings, and much more. On the Wall with Sword and Trowel is a reminder that no amount of professional training, educational instruction, and/or personal counsel could adequately ready an individual for the crucible of ministry--the confusion, pressures, heartbreak, disappointments, discouragements, and more. There is plenty more to learn about genuine faith, dealing with doubts and fears, the destructive nature of sin, the healing/transforming power of grace, the overwhelming demands of ministry, the necessity for authenticity, the sanctity of marriage and family, the joy of serving, and the weight of duty and responsibility--all issues every pastor/servant will face and must face.

Author Biography

Sanford Zensen is an ordained Baptist and former Christian & Missionary Alliance minister with more than twenty years of experience in the pastoral ministry. In addition, he has served twenty-five years at Bryan College as a professor of Christian studies and Christian college administrator and continues to teach as an adjunct for two separate institutions.