The Pastorate

As pastors we can all cope with the good times and blessings we receive.
What tests us is when things go wrong, or when something happens that causes anxiety and hurt.
How do we respond to poison pen letters? To members who refuse to submit to our authority as pastor? To those who cry, ‘Unless the pastor goes, I go’? To a group in the church (large or small) who are for ever criticising our preaching? To individuals who, for reasons best known to themselves, attempt to stir up the church against us?
It is situations like the ones mentioned above that cause us to cry, ‘Help, Lord, what do I do?’ In this
book we have one pastor’s honest and moving account of the battles he faced during his pastorate—how he overcame them or how they overcame him.

‘I very, very much enjoyed this book! … A most helpful and delightful read for every ‘fisher of
men and women’—well-written, insightful, encouraging, practical, wise, and wonderfully quotable!
Highly recommended!’

Dr Steve Brady, Senior Pastor at First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman, West Indies

‘This book is immensely practical and should be read widely by both those in the pew and those in the pulpit.’

Geoff Fox, Pastor of Haven Church, Gorran Haven, Cornwall

‘A very useful book for pastors and their wives.’ 

Philip Grist—served for many years as a missionary in India with Grace Baptist Mission

‘I can’t help wishing that this book had been around when I started out in ministry.’

Simeon Woodcraft, Pastor of New Milton Evangelical Free Church, Hampshire

Peter Fisherman is a retired pastor who has had over twenty books published by some of the principal Christian publishers worldwide. He continues to preach in various churches and to help younger men in the ministry. He hopes his experiences will prove a valuable source of encouragement, strength, comfort and practical help to those men facing trials and tribulations
in their churches.