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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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What I Learned When I Wasn't Preaching: Lessons About God, People and Ministry From A Pastor's Journey

What I Learned When I Wasn't Preaching: Lessons About God, People and Ministry From A Pastor's Journey

Gillespie-Mobley, Rick

Paperback

Biographies GeneralChristian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN13: 9798162576570
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 14 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What do you learn about ministry when you're no longer standing behind the pulpit?
After nearly forty years of pastoral ministry, Dr. Rick Gillespie-Mobley looks back and realizes that some of his most important lessons about God, people, and ministry were learned when he wasn't preaching.

What I Learned When I Wasn't Preaching is not a formula for building a large church or a collection of stories about a pastor who always got it right. Quite the opposite. It is an honest, sometimes humorous, and deeply personal account of what one pastor learned through his successes, mistakes, disappointments, relationships, and unexpected encounters with the grace of God.

Through real-life stories, Dr. Gillespie-Mobley reflects on temptation, humility, God's timing, people leaving the church, unexpected funerals, helping others, giving, marriage and children, politics in the church, church growth, and the challenges and blessings that come from serving God's people.

He writes honestly about wanting to build a great church, only to discover that God was more interested in building his character. He shares what happened when people he loved left the church, when attempts to help others went wrong, when ministry collided with family life, and when political differences threatened Christian relationships.

He also celebrates the extraordinary people God placed along the way-people whose faith, generosity, love, perseverance, and sometimes even their difficult personalities taught him lessons he could never have learned in a classroom.

And just when retirement seemed to bring his ministry journey full circle, God had one more remarkable surprise waiting for him.

Written especially for pastors, ministers, seminarians, church leaders, and anyone considering a call to ministry. What I Learned When I Wasn't Preaching offers something that cannot be learned simply by reading a textbook:

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