Bill Lawrence 
Effective Pastoring [EPUB ebook] 
Giving Vision, Direction, and Care to Your Church

"A great deal of confusion exists today as to what pastors are to be, " Lawrence writes. "Are they chaplains, CEO’s, preachers, managers, or counselors? Paul gave us the answer long ago: They are to be equippers, disciple-makers." Just as the great artist Michelangelo took a chipped and flawed piece of marble and transformed it into a masterful sculpture of David, so does a pastor with his flock. "This is pastoring", writes Lawrence, "serving as sculptors of souls."