What’s Best for the Body?
Pastoral Transitions in the Local Church
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What's Best for the Body is the result of forty-two years of pastoral experience involving three pastoral leadership transitions. Pastoral changes are never quick-and-easy, but they can be good-for-all when a local church determines to do what's best for the body through a practical and biblical process of transition.
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Pastoral transitions are often awkward at best and damaging at worst for a local church. What’s Best for the Body presents a transition model that prioritizes the well-being of a local church’s congregation as it and its leadership navigate change.
About the Author
David Culver has been married to Carolyn for forty-five years and they have four married children and fourteen grandchildren. David served as a lead pastor in four local churches in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania for over forty-two years. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Grace Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana, in 1979, and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree in 2005 from Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. He retired from full time pastoral ministry in 2022, but still does pulpit supply, pastoral leadership training, and is a Bible department adjunct instructor for Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. David and Carolyn live in Jamestown, Ohio.