![]() ![]() It is meant to sound an alarm against the pride of station and against the expectation of parity in pay and against the borrowing of paradigms from the professional world. ![]() The title of this book is meant to shake us loose from the pressure to fit in to the cultural expectations of professionalism. To this, Piper offers his rationale behind the title: The title of this book is sure to garner attention and even surprise from full-time pastors and preachers. “The aim of this book is to spread a radical, pastoral passion for the supremacy and centrality of the crucified and risen God-Man, Jesus Christ, in every sphere of life and ministry and culture” (xi). He calls pastors to abandon a secular view of seeing their pastoral ministry as a professional vocation and to reclaim the view of God’s call as a prophet. Piper sees that the professionalizing of the ministry kills pastors rather than refreshes. So says John Piper, senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and author of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals. More and more, true Christianity is becoming what it was at the beginning: foolish and dangerous” (ix). “Insulated Western Christianity is waking from the dream world that being a Christian is normal and safe. ![]()
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