{"product_id":"the-pastor-as-midwife-life-giving-leadership-for-the-healing-of-the-church","title":"The Pastor As Midwife: Life-Giving Leadership For The Healing Of The Church (Signed Copy)","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Signed by Author**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe find ourselves in a moment in which the church is in great pain. Congregations are dwindling, denominations are fracturing, and church scandals have become all too common. \u003cstrong\u003eWe need a new imagination to capture the hopefulness of God birthing something new in the midst of the pain of the old creation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Pastor as Midwife\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eShawna Songer Gaines\u003c\/strong\u003e brings her pastoral experience alongside her research on the vocation and practices of midwifery to explore a vision of pastoral leadership that is shaped by the wisdom of those who walk alongside expectant mothers. Learning to pastor like a midwife helps us embrace what God is doing in our pain and see new life in unlikely places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book gives pastors a ministry paradigm that embraces change and pain as part of God's salvific work in the world. Gaines helps pastors embrace a new, life-giving posture for ministry marked by advocacy, listening, and letting go of control. Like the apostle Paul in Romans 8:22, pastors who long to witness the birth of God’s new creation are invited to imagine their work like a hopeful midwife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IVP Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67695831908606,"sku":null,"price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0939\/1518\/files\/A1244.webp?v=1791574761","url":"https:\/\/store.asburyseminary.edu\/products\/the-pastor-as-midwife-life-giving-leadership-for-the-healing-of-the-church","provider":"Asbury Seminary Campus Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}