Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome

Great book! Really put a lot of things into perspective. I think the author articulated many truths, which I basically know, but needed to read. I took lots of notes to be used for future purposes. A very useful book!

Certainly worth reading as you will find many helpful tools, but for me, I found it more worldly religious than aspect using strong scriptural foundational. On the surface, I'd suppose if being a pastor was a business the PMA statements would be helpful but taking out the words or should I say Christianese statements you would find this book much similar to other success books of nonfaith

Looking to serve better.

This is such a great book. Anyone in ministry would benefit from reading. It should be required for ministers. Kent & Barbara Hughes have given a gift to the church and especially to those in full-time pastoral ministry.The book deserves 5-stars but unfortunately whoever produced the Kindle version did an extremely poor job of it. There are typos everywhere - missing quotation marks, periods where there should be commas, misspelled words, capitalized words in the middle of sentences. It makes for distracted reading. I would have no doubt given 5-stars if I read the print version, or if the Kindle version was done right.

Small church pastors look at how other ministers preside over large, growing congregations, and then they sometimes wonder what they are doing wrong and why they cannot be more "successful." R. Kent Hughes says that we are operating with a faulty understanding of success. He says that success means being faithful to what God wants you to do, it means praying regularly, loving God and each other, caring for your family, having the right attitude, believing God in all things, etc.Hughes shares stories from his life and how he once felt discouraged enough to consider leaving the ministry, but his wife talked him out of it. She encouraged him by talking about the lives that have been changed for the better, even though the church he started was small.This is a good book for pastors to read when they are struggling,and even when they are NOT struggling.

I enjoyed this book tremendously! In fact I already owned a copy and ordered this second copy so that I can loan it to my minister friends and ensure that I keep a copy for myself. Kent Hughes does an excellent job of causing the reader to focus on their primary responsibility of doing the will of God no matter what that looks like. It is affirming to know that the size of ministry no matter how big or small is not the measuring stick for whether you are successful or not.

I have enjoyed many of Hugh's books, but this one is surly the best I have read by him. It comes at just the right time too. Having experienced the pressures of being in an Evangelical Church to increase size, grow, grow, grow, it is refreshing and reassuring to have a much more biblical approach to "measuring your ministry." A+++. A MUST READ for any pastor who struggles with these pressures.

Can a pastor shepherd a small church faithfully for years, never see explosive growth, and still be a success? Yes? Find a conference or best-selling leadership book that will affirm that brother. It may prove difficult, but here is a treasure from the Hugheses.

It was exactly what ministry needs. I have been using it with a University Christian Union. Everyone involved in ministry of any sort should read this. Challenged me a lot in my perception of success