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A Pastoral Rule
Pastoral leadership is hard work. The challenge of sustaining faithful service to Jesus Christ and those who seek to follow him is real. And it is an abiding challenge. How can it be done?
Across its history the church has discerned disciplines that sustain faithful service in pastoral leadership. These disciplines have been gathered together to help pastoral leaders measure their own practice of ministry – to be grateful for areas where they are strong, and to identify practices that can strengthen them where their ministry of pastoral leadership is weak. These documents have often (though not always) been titled “Rule.” "Rule" in this sense is akin to “ruler” – a measuring device that brings more precise knowledge.
“A Pastoral Rule” is such a measuring device. It gathers wisdom about the practices that sustain pastoral leaders. “A Pastoral Rule” identifies faithful disciplines in three areas of ministry: personal disciplines, personal conduct, and structures of mutual accountability. Click here to go to the web page for "A Pastoral Rule," where you can download the document.
“A Pastoral Rule” is offered as an invitation. It was written by members of the Core Cluster of the Re-Forming Ministry program, a program of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Office of Theology & Worship. It is offered in hope that pastors will find this helpful for sustaining faithful ministry (see the Letter that introduces “A Pastoral Rule”).
We invite you to read “A Pastoral Rule” and consider how it might help you sustain faithful ministry. Try it! We invite you to commit to following “A Pastoral Rule” for a year. Whether through "A Pastoral Rule" or some other means, may all pastoral leaders in the PC(USA) find well-springs that sustain faithful ministry over the long stretch.
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