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Do You Like My Book Reviews?

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I really enjoy reading. I also enjoy recommending books to people. It is a passion of mine to get good Christian literature in the hands of people. So, it is fitting that I also like writing book reviews. I have been writing them here and putting them on Amazon for a little while now. I have to admit one of my selfish motivations too--I would really like to be a book reviewer. (Especially for the free books). So, you can help. Right now my reviewer rank is 936384. I have written 17 book reviews and most of the people that share the same ranking have written around 2 or 3 reviews. It would be a great encouragment for me if you would go here and vote on whether my reviews are helpful or not helpful. I think part of my low rating is due to the fact that I typically review Christian books and also older books. Also, I think sometimes my reviews are long (because sometimes I cut and paste from the ones posted here. And I'm not ruling out the last possibility--I suck at writing reviews.

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I Need Your Help

Posted by Unknown

To my fellow gospel ministers:

If you had 13 weeks to train a young man for ministry (knowing he will get more training later) what things would you be sure to cover? And what resources would you use?

It is all in my head and heart somewhere...I am having difficulty mapping it out and making it organized. I would hate the first 3 weeks being spent on me trying to figure out where we are going.

Here is what I have so far. I am wanting to sum it up as best I can. I have found five broad categories of ministry. Lead. Plead. Read. Bleed. And for lack of a better rhyming term...Breed. I want to teach a few principles of leadership--mostly that we are called to be a servant (Mt. 20:20-28). Here is a list so far:

Lead with gentleness (1 Pet. 3:16)
Lead with courage (Joshua 1)
Lead with humility (Phil. 2:3, 1 Pet. 5:5)
Lead with your life, authenticity (1 Thess. 2:8, 2 Tim. 3:10-11)
Lead with holiness, example (2 Tim. 2:22-26)
Lead with labor, suffering (2 Tim. 2:3)
Lead with passion, fervency (1 Pet. 5:1-5)
Lead with appropriate patience (1 Thess. 5:14)

There needs to be some teaching about where leadership comes from; this will probably be covered in our discussion of Matthew 20.

What would you add? What resources would you use? How would you teach these things? Obviously modeling them in my own life. How would you put this young man in situations where these graces would be brought out and cultivated?

Later I will discuss--Plead, Read, Bleed, and....Oh, I really need another name for this...Breed.

UPDATE: I think I have figured out how to avoid the word "breed" as a category. The concept of reproducing can fall under a category in leadership. One of the categories will now be "lead to be replaced".