Review: Ministering to Problem People in Your Church: What to Do with Well-Intentioned Dragons by Marshall Shelley
Review: Ministering to Problem People in Your Church: What to Do with Well-Intentioned Dragons Marshall Shelley Bethany House Publishers 2013 This book covers most of the people issues anyone has encountered if they have hung around the assembled church folks for any length of time. Some of us have been on both sides of this one, regrettably. Not fun from anybody’s perspective. And that is the reason that this book needs to read. By all of us. What this author describes may be told from the church perspective, but I think you’d meet the same challenges elsewhere. But since this is for ministers we’ll stay in that realm. His list of Dragon Species (42) is pretty thorough and he will introduce the reader to several of them in the reading. My favorite, if I can use that term in that way, involves the charter member’s reaction to a growing church and all the tactics that person used to stay in control. ...