{"id":261,"date":"2004-06-18T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2004\/06\/18\/building-a-professional-ministry-library-on-the-cheap\/"},"modified":"2004-06-18T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T02:00:51","slug":"building-a-professional-ministry-library-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/06\/18\/building-a-professional-ministry-library-on-the-cheap","title":{"rendered":"Building a Professional Ministry Library On The Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00adter\u00adday I spent 10 hours in a meet\u00ading dis\u00adcussing train\u00ading strate\u00adgies for col\u00adlege min\u00adis\u00adters (most of whom come from sec\u00adu\u00adlar col\u00adleges). While dri\u00adving back I began think\u00ading about the chal\u00adlenge a new min\u00adis\u00adter with\u00adout for\u00admal train\u00ading faces in build\u00ading a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal library. Books are expensive\u2013the New Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Com\u00admen\u00adtary series on the Old and New Tes\u00adta\u00adments retails for near\u00adly $1,500 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eerdmans.com\/shop\/product.asp?p_key=0802825206\">OT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eerdmans.com\/shop\/product.asp?p_key=0802824455\">NT<\/a>)! For some new min\u00adis\u00adters, build\u00ading a qual\u00adi\u00adty library can seem so over\u00adwhelm\u00ading that it\u2019s hard to know where to start.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/companycommand.army.mil\/ev_en.php?ID=16468_201&amp;ID2=DO_TOPIC\">sim\u00adi\u00adlar exam\u00adple<\/a>, I decid\u00aded to com\u00adpile a sol\u00adid (although basic) min\u00adistry library for under $200 (I failed by eleven cents). I priced the books (used) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon.com<\/a> on 6\/18\/2004. Books are list\u00aded in rough order of impor\u00adtance with\u00adin each cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Ref\u00ader\u00adence Col\u00adlec\u00adtion \u2014 $102.85<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NIV Exhaus\u00adtive Con\u00adcor\u00addance $19.35<\/li>\n<li>Sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adic The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, Mil\u00adlard Erick\u00adson $29.99<\/li>\n<li>The IVP Bible Back\u00adground Com\u00admen\u00adtary \u2014 New Tes\u00adta\u00adment, Craig Keen\u00ader $13.95<\/li>\n<li>Hand\u00adbook of Chris\u00adt\u00adian Apolo\u00adget\u00adics, Peter Kreeft &amp; Ronald Tacel\u00adli $5.99<\/li>\n<li>Chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and Back\u00adground Charts of the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment, H. Wayne House $10.15<\/li>\n<li>Chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and Back\u00adground Charts of the Old Tes\u00adta\u00adment, John Wal\u00adton $9.99<\/li>\n<li>Mul\u00adti\u00adpur\u00adpose Tools for Bible Study, Fred Danker $13.43<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The Per\u00adson\u00adal &amp; Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal Growth Col\u00adlec\u00adtion \u2014 $97.26<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Devo\u00adtion\u00adal Clas\u00adsics, Fos\u00adter &amp; Smith $6.65<\/li>\n<li>How to Read The Bible For All Its Worth, Fee &amp; Stu\u00adart $1.99<\/li>\n<li>Mere Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, C. S. Lewis $4.95<\/li>\n<li>The Spir\u00adit of the Dis\u00adci\u00adplines, Dal\u00adlas Willard $9.60<\/li>\n<li>The Chal\u00adlenge of Jesus, N. T. Wright $10.97<\/li>\n<li>Prayer, Richard Fos\u00adter $5.00<\/li>\n<li>A Tale of Three Kings, Gene Edwards $3.85<\/li>\n<li>The Pur\u00adsuit of Holi\u00adness, Jer\u00adry Bridges $2.49<\/li>\n<li>Exeget\u00adi\u00adcal Fal\u00adlac\u00adi\u00ades \u2013 D. A. Car\u00adson $8.99<\/li>\n<li>Between Two Worlds, John Stott $9.00<\/li>\n<li>The Mas\u00adter Plan of Evan\u00adge\u00adlism, Robert Cole\u00adman $0.97<\/li>\n<li>The Pur\u00adpose-Dri\u00adven Church, Rick War\u00adren $8.00<\/li>\n<li>Chris\u00adt\u00adian Coun\u00adsel\u00ading, Gary Collins $10.50<\/li>\n<li>Solu\u00adtion-Focused Pas\u00adtoral Coun\u00adsel\u00ading, Charles Kol\u00adlar $12.71<\/li>\n<li>Take and Read, Eugene Peter\u00adson $1.59<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Total Cost: $200.11    (exclud\u00ading ship\u00adping &amp; han\u00addling)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I tried to end each list with a book that would lead to more books, so that this would only be the gen\u00ade\u00adsis of a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal library\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I wel\u00adcome sug\u00adges\u00adtions for replace\u00adment vol\u00adumes. What do you think impor\u00adtant for a novice min\u00adis\u00adter with lit\u00adtle the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal edu\u00adca\u00adtion to read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes\u00adter\u00adday I spent 10 hours in a meet\u00ading dis\u00adcussing train\u00ading strate\u00adgies for col\u00adlege min\u00adis\u00adters (most of whom come from sec\u00adu\u00adlar col\u00adleges). While dri\u00adving back I began think\u00ading about the chal\u00adlenge a new min\u00adis\u00adter with\u00adout for\u00admal train\u00ading faces in build\u00ading a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal library. Books are expensive\u2013the New Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Com\u00admen\u00adtary series on the Old and New Tes\u00adta\u00adments \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/06\/18\/building-a-professional-ministry-library-on-the-cheap\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cBuild\u00ading a Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal Min\u00adistry Library On The Cheap\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-4d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}