Contents
The Heart of the Matter
Pastoral Ministry in Anabaptist Perspective

Preface vii
Erick Sawatzky

Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Loren L. Johns

1 “That some would be pastors” 15
Ross T. Bender

2 Worldly preachers and true shepherds 24
Anabaptist anticlericalism in the Lower Rhine
Karl Koop

3 Mennonite ministry and Christian history 39
Walter Sawatsky

4 Ecclesiology, authority, and ministry 60
An Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective
Gayle Gerber Koontz

5 The pastor as teacher 74
Perry B. Yoder

6 A New Testament model for ministry and leadership 85
Jacob W. Elias

7 Ordination in the King James Version of the Bible 105
Loren L. Johns

8 The pastor as prophet 118
Ben C. Ollenburger

9 Pastors and the church’s witness in society 129
Ted Koontz

10 “For God so loved” 138
Mary H. Schertz

11 The pastor as healer 149
Willard M. Swartley

12 The pastor as spiritual orienteer 162
A pastoral theology approach
Arthur Paul Boers

13 Paying attention 176
The minister as listener
June Alliman Yoder

14 Pastoral ministry as improvisatory art 186
Rebecca Slough

15 The pastor as caregiving sage 198
Daniel S. Schipani

16 Power and authority 213
Helping the church face problems and adapt to change
J. Nelson Kraybill

17 What is at the heart of pastoral ministry? 228
Erick Sawatzky

Introduction to appendixes 238

Appendix 1 239
Ministerial formation and theological education
in Mennonite perspective

Appendix 2 257
Theological education and curricular design at AMBS

Index of Scripture references 263

Subject index 266

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