What Do Lay People Want in Pastors?
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In What Do Lay People Want in Pastors?, Adair Lummis draws upon interviews with lay leaders and judicatory executives to examine the criteria churches use in selecting their pastors. In the first part of her report, she outlines specific pastoral qualities sought by search committees in congregations that are financially able to support a full-time pastor. In the second part, she looks at the growing difficulty of recruiting any trained pastor in small, primarily rural congregations. The report includes commentaries from two judicatory executives and a church lay leader. Lummis is a sociologist of religion at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary. Executive summary (html) |
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