Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself

Discover how personal vulnerability can revitalize your soul, ministry, and church. This book is a timely and unexpectedly honest exploration of pastoral sin. Learn to identify the root causes of pastoral sin, embrace the practice of confession, and find healing in forgiveness. It helps pastors maintain an open and honest relationships with themselves, God, an their congregations to facilitate repentance and restoration Many pastors are tempted to conceal their sin rather than risk vulnerability or disqualification from ministry. But this is spiritually dangerous, for both the pastor and the church. Unconfessed sin leads to guilt, shame, exhaustion, and loneliness. Instead, God invites pastors to confess, repent, and be healed, just like every other Christian. With great vulnerability and refreshing honesty, Jamin Goggin writes of those temptations and sins that uniquely plague the pastoral vocation. He shows pastors how to integrate regular confession to God and others, leading to a more hopeful, fruitful, and virtuous life and ministry.