The exodus of Baptist pastors

• Main Author: Pierce, Stephen Brian
• Other Authors: Dreyer, J. S.
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Forced termination; Pastoral disqualification; Baptist principles; Autonomy; Accreditation for ministry; Accountability; Mentoring; Lay leadership; Subterranean pastors; Baptist structures; Baptist leadership; Baptist church praxis; 254.06; Baptists; Pastoral theology > Baptists; Church officers; Church controversies > Baptists; Church and social problems > Baptists; Baptists > Relation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15781

The goal of the research was to explore the ongoing problem of Baptist Pastors leaving the ministry and to attempt to discover the impact of this problem upon Baptist Churches by means of "focus group" interviews. The dissertation links the problem with a Baptist ecclesiology and seeks to understand the Baptist belief in the autonomy of the Local Church and the praxis of accreditation for pastoral ministry, plus the existence of so-called "subterranean Pastors" which has contributed toward pastoral termination. === Practical theology === M.Th. (Practical Theology)