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Resource: Alban Institute (AL30507.0000) Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy Responses to Difficult Behavior     
Author: Boers, Arthur
Publisher: Alban Inst., 1999
Length: 147 pages
Heading: 070 — Conflict
Subjects: Alban Institute Books; Conflict
# Copies: 1
ISBN/ISSN: 9781566992183
Description: Conflict
This book is essential for pastor's survival, as well as for a pastor's skillful leadership of a congregation.
"Church members' difficult behavior can elicit naming, blaming, or shaming responses from a pastor. A much more creative approach is provided by this book. The author demonstrates how to deal with critics by turning them into teachers, increasing one's own self-awareness, and considering the whole system in which the criticism takes place. Neither authoritarianism nor appeasing are effective-'hard ball nor soft ball. ' Never call them Jerks is thorough, well researched, and well illustrated. The author's stories are useful sermon material. This is the best book I have read on this important subject-even better than the one I wrote on this topic!"
Age Groups: Adult (30-55); Adult (55+)


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