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Average rating: 4.19 · 1,736 ratings · 288 reviews · 75 distinct works • Similar authors

	Well-Intentioned Dragons: Ministering to Problem People in the Church 4.07 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ministering to Problem People in Your Church 4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quest Study Bible: New International Version 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deepening Your Ministry Through Prayer and Personal Growth: The Library of Christian Leadership #4 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing Lives Through Preaching and Worship: #1 in the Library of Christian Leadership 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leading Your Church Through Conflict and Reconciliation: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Your Church Through Counsel and Care: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Helping Those Who Don't Want Help 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Healthy Hectic Home: Raising a Family in the Midst of Ministry 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation: 30 Strategies to Transform Your Ministry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If pastors become preoccupied with the dragons, afraid to challenge them, or at least too concerned about “fighting only battles that need to be fought,” they often lose their spontaneity and creativity. Change is stifled, growth stunted, and the direction of ministry is set by the course of least resistance, which as everyone knows, is the course that makes rivers crooked. If the first casualties in dragon warfare are vision and initiative, the next victim is outreach. When a pastor is forced to worry more about putting out brush fires than igniting the church’s flame, the dragons have won, and the ministry to a needy world has lost.”
― Marshall Shelley, Ministering to Problem People in Your Church: What to Do With Well-Intentioned Dragons

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“Wherever there’s light, there’s bugs.”
― Marshall Shelley, Ministering to Problem People in Your Church: What to Do With Well-Intentioned Dragons

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“I have never met a man who wanted to be bad," writes George MacLeod. "The mystery of man is that he is bad when he wants to be good.”
― Marshall Shelley, Well-Intentioned Dragons: Ministering to Problem People in the Church

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