02-20-13 - More Questions Than Answers
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- Category: Authors
- Published: Monday, 18 February 2013 08:00
Learn what it really means to listen and how to share your faith by doing so. Click here for Brock's interview with Eleanor Shepherd, author of "More Questions Than Answers" on this week's Wednesday Bookmark, brought to you by Salem Storehouse!
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Why does it feel like most of the world today considers irrelevant the gospel we cherish and so faithfully proclaim in our churches? Why do our Christian responses fail to satisfy the heart quests of our neighbors? Does the shallowness of our neatly packaged answers alienate us from them and from each other?
More Questions than Answers offers the hope of reconciliation through exploring how we can develop listening relationships. Walking together in what becomes a spiritual accompaniment, we learn to attune ourselves to one another and to the Spirit within us. Then we dare to reach across the chasm that separates us and discover an authentic faith emerges.
This book won The Word Guild 2011 Award in the Christian Leadership category.
About the Authors
Eleanor Shepherd spent thirty years in ministry after ordination as an officer of The Salvation Army. Along with her engagement in pastoral ministry and administration, she has contributed over 95 articles, mainly to Salvation Army publications. These were distributed in a variety of periodicals in Canada, the USA, France, Germany and New Zealand. Her degree in Psychology equipped her for learning the listening skills that she uses in spiritual accompaniment relationships. A venue where she has been able to apply them is in the leadership of College and Careers Bible study groups. She undertook this leadership in Montreal and Toronto along with Glen, her husband of forty years, also a Salvation Army officer. One of these experiences led to the conversion of a young Muslim and Eleanor shares some of his story in More Questions than Answers.
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