RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People

Think?” to “I Am Enough” by Brené Brown (Avery, 2007)

A helpful analysis of shame and how to overcome it by a popular Christian social work professor in Texas.

www.ClergyCare.ca

A website from Focus on the Family Canada to help pastors access confidential support from professional counsellors, learn about restorative retreats for ministry leaders, find articles on healthy routines in ministry and locate helpful resources for ministry.

Fruitful Boughs Broken: Pastors in Faithfulness,

Failure, and Forgiveness by Glenn C. Taylor (Word Alive Press, 2019) A new Canadian study of leadership faithfulness, failure, forgiveness and restoration to ministry, drawing on case studies from both Scripture and the author’s extensive counselling experience. Reviewed in the Nov/Dec 2020 issue of Faith Today.

Why We Don’t Shoot the Wounded: God’s Purposes Are Stronger Than Our Choices by

Jim Reynolds (Xulon, 2010)

The author makes the case for the redemption and restoration of fallen church leaders and members.