Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in the Ministry, by Kyle McClellan
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From the Foreword by Brian Croft: Kyle McClellan has gone into a church "with guns blazing" and he was quickly fired. He has experienced the disappointment of unmet expectations and left because of this. He has pastored a destructive church that chewed him up and spat him out. He has felt the pull of the bigger and better church trying to woo him away. He has faced the burnout and fatigue that many pastors experience that causes them to bail. Read this book. Learn from him. Receive the essential lessons from a wise, broken man who has lived it, possesses the scars from it, owns the T-shirt and yet by the grace of God still stands.
Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in the Ministry, by Kyle McClellan - Amazon Sales Rank: #1182858 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .20" h x 4.40" w x 8.30" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in the Ministry, by Kyle McClellan Review ... short, easy to read, with seven lessons that Kyle McClellan learned from four pastorates that lasted a total of just ten years ... writes with the maturity of a godly pastor who recognises where he (and sometimes where the churches he served) went wrong. Worth a read. ~ Pete Killingley - Evangelicals Now Kyle is not afraid to lay out his game film for all to see here in this book. I am sure that each chapter was hard to write and brought up memories that were hard to relive. But I am certain that through his honesty and the lessons that he has personally learned through his mistakes, many pastors are going to be helped.If you're in ministry, or thinking about entering the ministry, I think that this would be a helpful book for you. At just 100 pages, it's an easy read, but one that may help you avoid some of the mistakes that Kyle made, and the heartache (for you and your people) associated with them. ~ Zack Ford, Youth Pastor, Grace Bible Church The more I work with pastors all around the world, the more I am finding that those who have terrible experiences pastoring a church often leave the ministry altogether. The hurt and pain is just too much. Such is not the case for my dear friend, Kyle McClellan, who wrote this book. Kyle shares some of the lessons he learned in those painful years with a raw transparency that is refreshing and engaging to read. ~ Brian Croft (Pastor, Auburndale Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky & Founder of Practical Shepherding) An intriguing book. The story of a man who both burned and was burned by several churches in the early years of his ministry. The lessons he learned along the way will be a great help to seminarians and pastors alike. ~ Mez McConnell (Pastor, Niddrie Community Church and Ministry Director of 20Schemes) With a humorous tone, a humble posture, and a pastor's heart, Kyle McClellan shares where he got punched in the mouth so we'd know when to duck. ~ Gavin Johnson (Lead Pastor, City Light Church, Omaha, Nebraska) Learn from Kyle's missteps, but even more, embrace the God of grace to whom he gives testimony. ~ Sean Michael Lucas (Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi) Mea Culpa delivers a raw view of truth and through that truth, a pathway to contentment, peace and forgiveness through the power of God. Read it and then live it. ~ Ed Weaver (CEO, T4Global, Dallas, Texas) ... Young ministers ought to read the book as a warning and an opportunity. Older ministers need to read the book as a call to humble mentoring of the next generation. ~ Paul R House (Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama) Read this book and be encouraged that God uses your mistakes while making you wiser in the process. ~ Mark Green (President, White Horse Inn) ... You will wince at Kyle's mistakes, grow wiser through his insights, and find fresh hope that a pastor can be used by God despite all of his faults and foibles. ~ Colin Adams (Pastor, Balllymoney Baptist Church, Northern Ireland)
Review The greatest strength of this book is its honesty: McClellan's confession is no half-hearted exercise in false humility, no exercise in serving up facile platitudes. In a clear and everywhere colorful fashion, he blames no one but himself for his decade of sojourning in pastoral ministry. Presently McCellan serves as pastor of Grace Church (PCA), a church he founded in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska. He is learning to apply seven valuable and hard-won lessons he learned during his first decade of ministry. These lessons make up the heart of the book and show he's indeed learned hard-to-come-by virtues of humility and wisdom-all while smoldering in the cauldron of ministerial affliction caused to a great degree, he says, by ministerial malpractice.Brutally honest and insightful. ~ The Gospel Coalition
About the Author Kyle McClellan is the founding pastor of Grace Church (PCA) in his hometown of Fremont, Nebraska. He is an occasional contributor to Practical Shepherding, an organization committed to equipping pastors in practical matters of pastoral ministry.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Helpful Pastoral Memoir By Jacob D Gerber Mea Culpa is Kyle McClellan's pastoral memoir, working through some of the mistakes that Kyle made earlier in his ministry leading up to his current position as a church planter in Fremont, NE. Although Kyle admits that the subject of his mistakes isn't the most pleasant thing to write about, I found this book to be very helpful.Part of what makes this an interesting book to read is that Kyle pulls from widely different sources, with one chapter devoted to Wendell Berry's theology of place, and another chapter devoted to powerlifting. Additionally, Kyle had a wide breadth of ministry experience, from Southern Baptist churches to missionary work to unreached people groups in Kenya, to becoming a church planter in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in Nebraska. These different contexts help him to approach the issue of ministry mistakes from wide range of perspectives.In all, this is a book that I wish I could have read right out of seminary, even though I think that Kyle and I are built differently. While his pride showed through in different ways than mine does (he would fight when I would flight or freeze), the way he processed through his own pride helped me to understand mine better--and to identify a few more places where my pride might hurt how I serve the church.This is a very helpful book for pastors and aspiring pastors, and I highly recommend it! It is a quick read filled with practical tips on pastoral theology.(Disclaimer: For what it's worth, I am fellow pastor in Kyle's presbytery, and I know Kyle pretty well.)
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Humble Help to Persevere in Ministry By John Crotts So many pastors give up in ministry. Ministry is hard and ministers make mistakes. Persevering in the pastorate takes a lot of grace and a lot of humility. Kyle McClellan offers a great model of one who has admittedly made mistakes in ministry of getting low, confessing, a resting upon the grace of God to persevere. I appreciated his warm conversational style and his willingness to tell on himself for past mistakes. This kind of book can help young men avoid missteps, but it can also encouraged veteran pastors not to go backwards, but to continue to make progress in the good work of shepherding the flock of the Lord Jesus.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good lessons for young pastors By Zack Ford Mea Culpa — My bad. My fault.These are some hard words to say, aren't they?Not many of us like to admit our faults, confess that we were wrong, let alone "learn from our mistakes." Especially in ministry. Who among us wants to admit that we were prideful, arrogant, theological snobs? That we didn't handle our family well in the midst of ministry responsibilities? That we were mistaken in how we tried to preach, ending up sounding like a bad Tim-Keller-wanna-be?Not many of us like to say those words – Mea Culpa. But sometimes they are necessary. And sometimes, not only we can learn from our mistakes, but others can as well.It's that conviction that drove Kyle McClellan to write this new book: Mea Culpa: Learning from Mistakes in Ministry. Kyle did not set out to be an author, especially not an author writing about all of his mistakes that he's made. But through the prodding of a good friend in the ministry, Brian Croft, he was convinced that some of his mistakes, and the lessons that he learned from them, may be all too common among new pastors who may be able to learn from him and escape some of the heart-ache that he experienced (and caused).The AuthorKyle was a preaching-award-winning seminary student from SBTS, ready to go into churches and bestow his preaching genius on them. What happened in reality, though, looked a little different. From 1996-2006, Kyle says that he pastored 4 different churches, with only 1 of the 4 really being sad that he was leaving. Not a very good start.But through it all, the Lord was faithful and enabled Kyle to see many of the mistakes that he had made, and allowed him to learn from them.The MistakesKyle identifies 7 mistakes in the book that plagued him in his ministry, and which he thinks are prevalent among many young pastors today:Lesson 1 — Kyle had to learn that theological knowledge alone does not make a good pastor, nor does it erase his sinful heart. He had to learn the importance of shepherding his people to greater knowledge and understanding; not just lecturing to them.Lesson 2 — Kyle had to learn the importance of place — that God not only calls a man to minister as a vocation, but calls him to minister in a particular place, with all its quirks, regional peculiarities, and such.Lesson 3 — Kyle learned the value of making sure that you are, in fact, a good fit for the church in which you are interviewing with to pastor, and that they are a good fit for you. No one is served by you "faking it" in the interviews just to get the job. That will only end in heartache for you and the church.Lesson 4 — Kyle had to learn the absurdity of competing in the ministry with other ministers and churches, a sad reality that is all too common among young pastors.Lesson 5 — Kyle had to learn to preach like Kyle, not like Tim Keller, John Piper, or Al Mohler. When he tried to sound, act, and preach like them, he ended up sounding like a cheap knockoff (at best).Lesson 6 — Kyle had to learn how to balance the tightrope of being authentic with the people he was shepherding, while at the same time modeling a lifestyle of godliness.Lesson 7 — Kyle had to learn how to lead his family well first and foremost. Rather than let the ministry come before his family, and in essence destroy his family, he had to learn the importance of leading his family first and the church second.Each of these mistakes and lessons that Kyle identified in his book were spot-on. I have seen each of them, to one degree or another, in my own ministry (public), my own heart (private), or in the ministries of some dear friends from seminary in the ministry today.Strengths and WeaknessesOne of the biggest strengths in the book is the author's honesty and transparency. He lays it all bare for the sake of encouraging and helping other ministers. Just like a game film that athletes watch in the days following a game, where they analyze their every success and failure, Kyle is not afraid to lay out his game film for all to see here in this book. I am sure that each chapter was hard to write and brought up memories that were hard to relive. But I am certain that through his honesty and the lessons that he has personally learned through his mistakes, many pastors are going to be helped.The biggest weakness that I would identify in the book was the writing. It's not bad, but oftentimes the paragraphs or sections seemed disconnected and disjointed. He would be talking about one thing, and jump to a different thought, without a logical transition. It felt more like I was sitting down talking to a good friend in the ministry who was telling me his mistakes and lessons he'd learned – rabbit-trails, random trains of thought, and all. That did not make it a bad book by any means. But as a reader, I found myself on more than one occasion scratching my head, saying, "What does that have to do with what you were just talking about?"ConclusionOverall, I thought that the book was good. As a pastor, it is encouraging to read the honest and transparent reflections of a fellow pastor who has "been there, done that," has made mistakes, has messed up, and is willing to say "my bad" and learn from them. It is encouraging because we've all been there. We've all done things we wish we hadn't, said things we'd rather we didn't. It's easy to look at the "celebrity" preachers that we all like to listen to and think, "Wow! They've got it all together. How do they do that? I just feel like I take two steps back for every one step forward."But then you have someone like Kyle McClellan come along and say: You know what? Me too, brother! I've been there, and worse. Let me tell you about it.If you're in ministry, or thinking about entering the ministry, I think that this would be a helpful book for you. At just 100 pages, it's an easy read, but one that may help you avoid some of the mistakes that Kyle made, and the heartache (for you and your people) associated with them.In accordance with FTC regulations, I would like to thank Christian Focus Publishers for providing me with a review copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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