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You Are Not Fueled by Coffee, Sleep, or Approval
As women, ministry pushes us to moments of insufficiency, exposes our weaknesses, and tests our patience. Some days it feels like a little more sleep, a lot more coffee, and a pat on the back might sustain us. But down deep, we know these things can never fuel our ministries.
Positive without being cliché, Running on Empty presents the realities of vocational ministry with humor and hope. Author Barbara Bancroft draws from her experience as a missionary woman and pastor's wife to demonstrate how the gospel must be our message to ourselves as well as others. Along the way, she confronts the "mythic ministry model of Proverbs 31" and other stereotypes and expectations that hinder women from enjoying and displaying the gospel each day.
Running on Empty's down-to-earth, humorous writing style reaches out to weary women reluctant to read another book on ministry. Offering more than crisis management tips or how-tos, Running on Empty reorients women's hearts and minds to the joy of belonging to Christ and being a part of his kingdom work. Ideal for small group discussion or personal reflection, Running on Empty stretches beyond burnout prevention strategies all the way to joy and purpose in ministry.
Title: Running on Empty: The Gospel for Women in Ministry By: Barbara Bancroft Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Vendor: New Growth Press Publication Date: 2014 | Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches) Weight: 13 ounces ISBN: 1939946352 ISBN-13: 9781939946355 Stock No: WW946350 |
As women, ministry pushes us to moments of insufficiency, exposes our weaknesses, and tests our patience. Some days it feels like a little more sleep, a lot more coffee, and a pat on the back might sustain us. But down deep, we know these things can never fuel our ministries.
Positive without being cliché, Running on Empty presents the realities of vocational ministry with humor and hope. Author Barbara Bancroft draws from her experience as a missionary woman and pastors wife to demonstrate how the gospel must be our message to ourselves as well as others. Along the way, she confronts the mythic ministry model of Proverbs 31 and other stereotypes and expectations that hinder women from enjoying and displaying the gospel each day.
Running on Emptys down-to-earth, humorous writing style reaches out to weary women reluctant to read another book on ministry. Offering more than crisis management tips or how-tos, Running on Empty reorients womens hearts and minds to the joy of belonging to Christ and being a part of his kingdom work.
Ideal for small group discussion or personal reflection, Running on Empty stretches beyond burnout prevention strategies all the way to joy and purpose in ministry.
Barbara Bancroft began ministry life with her husband Josiah in 1976. Since then she has worked with him in church planting, missions, and as a pastor's wife of a large church. While her husband Josiah oversees missions at Serge, Barbara mentors and encourages the many missionary women and pastors wives they meet with all over the world. She is the author of Running on Empty: The Gospel for Women in Ministry.
"Running on Empty is simply the best book Darlene and I have ever read on the 'raptures and ruptures' of vocational ministry, and the radical implications of God's grace for wives and women who are seeking to serve Jesus."
Scotty and Darlene Smith
Ministering at West End Community Church, Nashville, TN
"Barbara Bancroft urges us to live beyond the clichés we impose on ourselves in order to live in the freedom of the gospel that will set free the women and men we lead."
Bryan and Kathy Chapell
Authors of Each for the Other: Marriage as It's Meant to Be
"Barbara identifies the struggles of women in ministry and points to the Truth. To be comfortable in our own skin because of Jesus - yes, it is possible."
Ed and Sheri Welch
Author; faculty member at the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (Ed)
Administrator at Bridge Community Church, Glenside, PA (Sheri)
"Barbara is passionate about the need for women to stand firm in the truth when tempted to get sidelined by sin, or the sins of others. She is honest about her weaknesses and failures, but knows there is no help outside of going to Christ daily for forgiveness, and trusting again in the power of the Spirit to reach out to a broken world."
Rose Marie Miller
Missionary to London; author of From Fear to Freedom: Living as Sons and Daughters of God and Nothing Is Impossible with God
Barbara Bancroft began ministry life with her husband Josiah in 1976. Since then she has worked with him in church planting, missions, and as a pastor's wife of a large church. While her husband Josiah oversees missions at World Harvest Mission, Barbara mentors and encourages the many missionary women and pastors' wives they meet with all over the world.
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