Do You Have to Wear a Collar?: Stories of an Ordained Ministry - Hardcover

Sarjeant, Bart

9781587900358: Do You Have to Wear a Collar?: Stories of an Ordained Ministry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587900351 ISBN 13: 9781587900358

Publisher: Regent Pr, 2002

What is a priest? What is a ministry? How is one shaped or formed as an ordained minister? How does one recognize a call to ordained ministry? How does one relate the ministries of lay and ordained? These questions are explored in these short vignettes by Episcopal priest Bart Sarjeant. All of the more than 200 stories come from his own personal experiences as a priest in the Episcopal church for more than thirty-five years. The stories range from the very personal to the very pastoral, from his work with teenagers to his preparation of hundreds of couples for marriage, and from having to face a diagnosis of potentially terminal cancer to his longtime fascination with cars and motorcycles. Sprinkled with on the spot humor, all told in the first person, the reader shares Father Bart's life journey. We see that it is possible for congregational ministry to have a strategic impact on much broader mission work. His book is an example of the Church at its best. It shows the height, depth, breadth, variety and profundity of what it means to be a priest in the modern world.

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About the Author:

Bart Sarjeant is a retired Episcopal priest living with his wife, Beverly, in San Anselmo, California. Bev and Bart have two grown children, Greg and Michelle, and a grandson, Max. Born and raised in California, Bart has served Episcopal parishes in the south and north of that state, as well as serving a short pastorage in England in 1971.

Review:

"Bart's gifted passion to work with people can be clearly seen in his marvelous book." -- The Most Rev. Stewart Payne, Archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada

A book for people who believe in a God who loves us and comes to us in those around us. -- Fr. Dare Morgan,S.J.

Follow Bart in just a couple of his stories and you will bond with him. -- Rt. Rev. G. Richard Millard, Suffragan Bishop retired, Episcopal Diocese of California

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