Encouragement as a Protective Factor for New Christian Pastors
The significant challenges and constantly changing nature of contemporary Christian ministry can be overwhelming, especially for those serving as senior pastors in their first year. While some clergy can persevere and continue with the ministry work, Christian leaders need the external and internal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2022
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 455-470 |
| Further subjects: | B
Encouragement
B Tripartite encouragement model B Clergy |
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| Summary: | The significant challenges and constantly changing nature of contemporary Christian ministry can be overwhelming, especially for those serving as senior pastors in their first year. While some clergy can persevere and continue with the ministry work, Christian leaders need the external and internal resources of encouragement to assist during the early transitional year of leading Christian congregations (Brubaker, in Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice, 3(2), 23-58, 2016; Hessel, in Phenomenological study of pastor burnout, 2015). This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experience of encouragement as a protective factor for newly appointed Christian pastors in the United States during the first year of their pastoral appointment. Using the tripartite encouragement model, the researcher interviewed eight new Christian pastors from diverse denominations. Thematic data analysis resulted in eight themes regarding how Christian pastors describe their encouragement encounters. The findings affirmed that, for new Christian pastors, the foci, effectiveness, and atmosphere of encouragement could be described by three elements of encouraging: who encourages, what is said in the encouragement messages, and when the encouragement encounters occur. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-022-01011-5 |