Ministry Essentials Bible-NIV: A Comprehensive Bible for Everyone in Leadership

The Ministry Essentials Bible, NIV is designed to equip church and parachurch leaders, missionaries, laypeople and ministry leaders of all kinds with the practical tools they need to manage everyday ministry issues. It provides busy leaders with succinct, wise, and applicable viewpoints on the most common facets of Christian leadership.

250 practical articleswritten by well-known Christian leaders such as Bill Hybels, Gordon MacDonald, John and Nancy Ortberg, Billy Graham, John Stott, and Francis Chancomplement the biblical text. The articles are divided into five main themes of ministry:
Spiritual Leadership
Preaching, Corporate Prayer, and Discipleship
The Leader's Spiritual Life
Shepherding Others
Evangelism and Social Justice

The individual articles within this Bible provide basic overviews on topics from managing and motivating volunteers, toe managing conflict, to ministering to someone with an eating disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. This unique content is from the archives of Christianity Today is not found in any other Bibles on the market.

A practical Resource Guide provides guidance on various pastoral functions such as weddings, baptisms, and funerals.

Features
250 helpful articles on ministry interspersed throughout the Scriptures
Resource list for further reading
NIV Concordance
Blank pages for personal notes
Genuine leather cover, black
Two ribbon markers
Gold page edges
9-point text size
9.75" x 7.50" x 1.75"