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Gib has served in ministry for 42 years, starting as an associate pastor and then as lead pastor of 6 churches. His education includes a BA & BTh, MDiv, DMin & research Diss in how Moses handled the conflict in the wilderness. He has been a professor of New Testament and Greek and has been a Pastoral Min Chaplain. Gib loves to spend time with his wife, children, and grandchildren. He loves good food, fishing, playing golf, reading, and writing. Additionally, Gib loves to preach, teach, and lead.

 

 

Dr. Gib Allen was born in Houston, Tx., and raised along the southern gulf coast of the US. Gib enrolled in Stephen F. Austin State University, where he met his wife Tamie. Through her witness and that of the college ministry there, he received Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in June of 1977. He was baptized and became a part of Nacogdoches Missionary Baptist Church, in Nacogdoches, Tx. Right after his graduation from S.F.A.S.U., Gib surrendered his life as a minister of the gospel and entered his first Seminary training that following year.

That first year of walking with Jesus was transformational, in part, because it was then he married the love of his life, Tamie, who became a great partner with him, not only in life, but also in ministry. God blessed Gib and Tamie with 4 beautiful children, including one who died tragically in a rock- climbing accident. They also have 3 wonderful grandchildren.

The calling of God has been the greatest experience of his life.  Over the past 42 years of ministry, the Lord has taught Gib many lessons, some very painful, others exhilarating, that have gone into shaping his pastoral and leadership skills. Throughout, he has sought to live out the mantra of Micah, “to love justice, to seek mercy, and to walk humbly with my God” (6:8).

In Gib’s first Seminary, Texas Baptist Institute and Seminary, it laid the foundation for a fruitful ministry, including his study of Greek and Hebrew. While using the original languages in his ministry, he completed an MDiv in Biblical Languages from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This led Gib to teach as an adjunct professor of NT, Greek, and Pastoral Ministries at Howard Payne University’s El Paso campus. All of this fueled his desire to pursue a Doctorate in Pastoral leadership from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

It was during Gib’s third pastorate in Ozark, AR., when he was in his MDiv at Southwestern, where the Lord led him through the most painful experience he would face in life, when He took his first-born son in a rock climbing accident. During that very dark and painful period, the Lord taught him more about His abundant grace, over-flowing mercy and determined purpose than he had ever known before. Out of that personal journey came the Lord’s equipping to help thousands of people who were suffering some kind of loss or pain, enabling him to teach and encourage them how they might work through their grief to live a life of renewed purpose, joy, and service.

Throughout this course of 42 years, Gib has served on staff as associate pastor and as lead pastor of 6 churches, including a church plant. Early in his ministry, Gib began encountering conflict for which he was totally unprepared. This was very frustrating because he had received no training in Seminary for this. It led him to seek out experienced pastors, books, and training on the subject, in order to try and get a handle on how to deal with conflict. But the more he encountered conflict the more his frustration grew, because outside of a few scriptures that dealt with conflict, there was no clear tool to guide him through conflict issues. A burden began growing upon his heart to develop a practical tool that might help him through conflict. In response, the Lord was faithful by answering Gib’s burden during his Doctorate program in leadership. It was there he had the opportunity to study Moses’ leadership of Israel through the wilderness and based on Moses’ example, develop a Pastor-Directed Model to successfully address conflict in ministry. This book comes out of that work and more broadly, is really about a life of ministry in the making, learning how to effectively address conflict, and is reflected by the multiple stories woven throughout this work. As it turns out, this work was not just for his own benefit, but also for the benefit of pastors, leaders, and churches laboring for the Lord and the Kingdom of God. Gib’s prayer and goal is to create a practical conflict model with an easy to use tool that will help pastors and leaders successfully address conflict.

 This is Gib’s first book from his own life-long journey in ministry and demonstrates his passion to assist pastors, leaders, and churches to successfully address conflict for the glory of God. But it also demonstrates his desire to teach and equip next generation pastors and leaders for the daunting challenges facing the gospel ministry in the next 40 years.

The Glory of God

Pastor, your greatest desire is to bring glory to God. He called you into ministry. You love him with all of your heart and more than anything, you want him to be pleased. You please him when you seek his glory above all.

One key way that you do that is when you address conflict in your ministry his way, and you do so with the goal to lead people to surrender to God’s will in order to experience his peace. That was Moses’ goal for Israel, and when they obeyed the Lord, they experienced his will and came to experience his peace as a result.  My passion is to bring glory to God and to help you lead well and handle conflict with a simple model that will bring new levels of peace to you, your family, your team, and your congregation.

 

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