Pastoral Theology: The Man of God - His calling & godly life

From 1978 to 1998, Pastor A.N. Martin taught Pastoral Theology in the Trinity Ministerial Academy, a church-based ministerial training institution. Every Friday throughout the academic year, all the students would gather for two hours of teaching presented in a four-year cycle. Subsequently various series of the audiotapes were widely circulated. Many expressed their desire to see these lectures printed. As an intermediate step in responding to that desire, the Trinity Baptist Church eldership decided to encourage Pastor Martin to rework the original lectures and deliver them one final time, while professionally recording them. This project was begun in 2007 and completed in 2012 with Pastor Martin teaching his entire Pastoral Theology course “one more time” to 25 to 30 men. The transcriptions of these DVD lectures constituted the basis for the first draft of these edited lectures. Within these lectures there are very few issues faced by the ordinary pastor that are not addressed in one way or another. It is the author’s prayer that when all the volumes are nestled on the bookshelf of any pastor, that whatever his concern may be in conjunction with his pastoral labors, that he can expect that most likely, there is something in these volumes that would be of help to him. It is also the author’s prayer that even the most experienced pastor will find in these pages much that will provoke him to pursue greater personal godliness, increased preaching effectiveness, and expanded pastoral usefulness. This is Volume 1 of what is projected to be three volumes totaling more than 2000 pages. Every effort is being made to bring the subsequent volumes into print in a timely fashion.

Publisher: Trinity Pulpit Press
Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781943608119

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Albert N. Martin was one of the founding pastors of Trinity Baptist Church in Montville, NJ, where he labored for 46 years. Pastor Martin faithfully expounded the scriptures with a Christ-exalting focus and with passionate, penetrating, and pointed application at Trinity as well as at its annual pastors’ conferences. His ministry was also sought in churches and conferences throughout the States and around the world. In June 2008, he retired from his pastoral labors and relocated to Michigan with his wife, Dorothy, where he now resides while continuing his labors of counseling, writing, and preaching.

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“Like so many young men beginning their pastoral labors and looking for contemporary models of genuinely Calvinisitic pastoral ministry, I cut my ministerial teeth on cassettes (!) of Pastor Martin’s Pastoral Theology class. Later I had the opportunity to “Presbyterianize” much of that material and use it in connection with The Reformed Pastor class that I taught for 15 years at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and for almost as many years for the Ministerial Training Institute of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. I rejoice that, finally, this unsurpassed material is in print - available for our reading, study, meditation, self-examination, repentance, and new ministerial obedience. May God use it to raise up a new generation of shepherds after Christ’s own heart." Bill Shishko, Regional Home Missionary, Presbytery of Connecticut and Southern New York, Orthodox Presbyterian Church.