Running on Empty: The Gospel for Women in Ministry - Softcover

Barbara Bancroft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939946352 ISBN 13: 9781939946355

Publisher: New Growth Press, 2014

Synopsis

You Are Not Fueled by Coffee, Sleep, or Approval.

As women, ministry pushes us to moments of insufficiency, exposes our weaknesses, and tests our patience. Some days it feels like a little more sleep, a lot more coffee, and a pat on the back might sustain us. But down deep, we know these things can never fuel our ministries.

Positive without being cliché, Running on Empty presents the realities of vocational ministry with humor and hope. Author Barbara Bancroft draws from her experience as a Christian, missionary woman and pastor's wife to demonstrate how the gospel must be our message to ourselves as well as others. Along the way, she confronts the mythic ministry model of Proverbs 31 and other stereotypes and expectations that hinder women from enjoying and displaying the gospel each day.

Running on Empty's down-to-earth, humorous writing style reaches out to weary women reluctant to read another book on ministry. Offering more than crisis management tips or how-tos, Running on Empty reorients Christian women's hearts and minds to the joy of belonging to Jesus Christ and being a part of his kingdom work. Ideal for small group discussion or personal reflection, Running on Empty stretches beyond burnout prevention strategies all the way to joy and purpose in ministry.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Bancroft began ministry life with her husband Josiah in 1976. Since then she has worked with him in church planting, missions, and as a pastor's wife of a large church. While her husband Josiah oversees missions at Serge, Barbara mentors and encourages the many missionary women and pastors wives they meet with all over the world.

Review:

Running on Empty is simply the best book Darlene and I have ever read on the raptures and ruptures of vocational ministry, and the radical implications of God's grace for wives and women who are seeking to serve Jesus.
--Scotty and Darlene Smith Ministering at West End Community Church, Nashville, TN

Barbara Bancroft urges us to live beyond the clichés we impose on ourselves in order to live in the freedom of the gospel that will set free the women and men we lead.
--Bryan and Kathy Chapell Authors of Each for the Other: Marriage as It's Meant to Be

Thank you, Barbara, for taking the time to write to us. You identify the struggles of women in ministry and point us to the Truth. Even for women who have studied Scripture, you make this book fresh and hopeful. To be comfortable in our own skin because of Jesus yes, it is possible.
--Ed and Sheri Welch, Author; faculty member at CCEF (Ed); administrator at Bridge Community Church, Glenside, PA (Sheri)

About this edition

• Publisher: New Growth Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1939946352
• ISBN 13: 9781939946355
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224