As ministers driven by the day-to-day demands of church life, it is easy for us to focus almost exclusively on the pragmatic side of ministry, to the exclusion of thinking theologically about what we do. Ministry In The Image Of God (InterVarsity Press) by Stephen Seamands helps us think more deeply about what we do and why we do it, rooting the practice of ministry in Trinitarian thought. As the author asserts, “Having spent eleven years as a local church pastor and more than twenty years as a seminary professor of theology who equips persons preparing for Christian service, I am convinced that no doctrine is, in fact, more relevant to our identity and calling as ministers than the Trinity.”
