Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition

by John Piper
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry, Updated and Expanded Edition

by John Piper

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In this revised and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals that includes a new introduction and select all-new chapters, best-selling author John Piper pleads through a series of thoughtful essays with fellow pastors to abandon the professionalization of the pastorate and pursue the prophetic call of the Bible for radical ministry.
“We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry,” he writes. “The mentality of the professional is not the mentality of the prophet. It is not the mentality of the slave of Christ. Professionalism has nothing to do with the essence and heart of the Christian ministry. The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in our wake. For there is no professional childlikeness, there is no professional tenderheartedness, there is no professional panting after God.
 “Brothers, we are not professionals. We are outcasts. We are aliens and exiles in the world. Our citizenship is in Heaven, and we wait with eager expectation for the Lord (Phil. 3:20). You cannot professionalize the love for His appearing without killing it. And it is being killed.
 “The world sets the agenda of the professional man; God sets the agenda of the spiritual man. The strong wine of Jesus Christ explodes the wine- skins of professionalism.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433678738
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

John Piper es consejero del Seminario Bethlehem, profesor y fundador de desiringGod.org. Ha servido como pastor por 33 años a la iglesia Bautista Bethlehem en Minneapolis, Minnesota. Es autor de más de 50 libros y en su sitio web deiringGod.org, hay mas de 30 años de predicaciones disponibles para bajar gratuitamente. Piper es el editor general de este libro, con la colaboración de otros autores clave.

John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor for Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For 33 years, he pastored Bethlehem Baptist Church. He is author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition ix

1 Brothers, We Are Not Professionals 1

2 Brothers, God Loves His Glory 5

3 Brothers, God Is Love 10

4 Brothers, God Does Make Much of Us 16

5 Brothers, Live and Preach Justification by Faith 25

6 Brothers, God Is the Gospel 40

7 Brothers, Beware of the Debtor's Ethic 49

8 Brothers, Tell Them Not to Serve God 55

9 Brothers, Consider Christian Hedonism 61

10 Brothers, Let Us Pray 68

11 Brothers, Beware of Sacred Substitutes 74

12 Brothers, Fight for Your life 79

13 Brothers, Be Bible-Oriented-Not Entertainment-Oriented-Preachers 85

14 Brothers, Query the Text 92

15 Brothers, Bitzer Was a Banker 98

16 Brothers, Read Christian Biography 106

17 Brothers, Show Your People Why God Inspired Hard Texts 113

18 Brothers, Pursue the Tone of the Text 120

19 Brothers, Save the Saints 125

20 Brothers, Feel the Truth of Hell 132

21 Brothers, Lead Them to Repentance through Their Pleasure 138

22 Brothers, Help Them Act the Miracle 144

23 Brothers, Magnify the Meaning of Baptism 154

24 Brothers, Our Affliction Is for Their Comfort 163

25 Brothers, Let the River Run Deep 169

26 Brothers, Don't Fight Flesh Tanks with Peashooter Regulations 174

27 Brothers, Bodily Training Is of Some Value 182

28 Brothers, Don't Confuse Uncertainty with Humility 192

29 Brothers, Tell Them Copper Will Do 200

30 Brothers, Help Your People Hold On and Minister in Calamity 206

31 Brothers, Give Them God's Passion for Missions 219

32 Brothers, Sever the Root of Racism 228

33 Brothers, Blow the Trumpet for the Unborn 240

34 Brothers, Focus on the Essence of Worship, Not the Form 256

35 Brothers, Love Your Wives 270

36 Brothers, Pray for the Seminaries 283

Name Index 291

Subject Index 295

Scripture Index 301

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