Pastors' Academy
Pastoral Support
John Benton’s Booklets
We are working to make John Benton’s pastoral booklets available for download from this page.
Latest Booklets
- Resilience in Ministry – Four keys to persevering as a church leader (download)
- Church Size – How does it relate to church health?(download)
- Church Membership – Forging strong congregations (download)
- One Another – Some of the New Testament’s teaching on how Christians should relate to each other as members of the church (download)
- Male Leadership in Church – How should it work? (download)
- Demonic Activity Today – A rough guide for pastors (download)
- The Woke Agenda – A guide for pastors (download)
- Gender Confusion – A briefing for Bible Christians (download)
- Freedom and Humanity in the Churches – leaders and congregations who grow people for Christ (download)
- Online church? – lockdown and digital technology have raised questions (download)
- Rebuilding church after lockdown (download)
- Soft Totalitarianism – a wake up call to the churches (download)
- The Balanced Pastor – challenges in caring for the church (download)
- Taming Dragons – a pastoral response to destructive people in the church (download)
Preaching
Church Structure
- Elders for better or worse? – Reconsidering eldership in the local church (download)
- Eldership – a brief summary of Biblical teaching (download)
- A New Christian’s Guide to the Churches – Robert Strivens (download)
- Deacons – A sketch of the New Testament’s teaching (download)
- Pastors and Elders -A key relationship (download)
Issues for Pastors
- Time Management for Pastors – Being a good minister when you can’t do everything. (download)
- A Praying Pastor – when only God is looking (download)
- Seven Safeguards For Ministry Families – healthy attitudes for a pastor’s household (download)
- Pastor Nobody – Encouragements for God’s forgotten heroes (download)
- Seven Disillusioned Pastors – Why you should think twice
before giving up in ministry – (download)
