Thursday, July 30, 2009

Nine Marks: Seventeen Things that Seminary Never Taught Me

http://blog.9marks.org/2009/03/seventeen-things-that-seminary-never-taught-me.html

Seventeen Things that Seminary Never Taught Me

by Deepak Reju

 
1.  How to tell a man his wife just died.

2.     How to tell a couple they should not get married.

3.     How to tell a staff member he is fired.

4.     How to tell my wife that I am depressed.

5.     How to tell someone that he or she is foolish.

6.     How to encourage someone who has given up on life.

7.     How to plead with a man to stay with his wife.

8.     How to give comfort to a woman whose husband just left her.

9.     How to give comfort to a mother who just suffered a miscarriage.

10.   How to navigate the IRS tax code for pastors.

11.   How to chair an elders' meeting.

12.   How to organize and manage a church budget.

13.   How to balance church responsibilities with family life.

14.   How to do a wedding and a funeral.

15.   How to administer the Lord's Supper.

16.   How to best use technology for the sake of the kingdom.

17.   How to shield my kids from the pressures of being a PK.

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