"A must read for every person who is or thinks they are called to be a pastor and for every person who has one." -William Paul Young, #1 New York Times- bestselling author of The Shack
Eugene Peterson never wanted to be a pastor. That's why in 1962, when Peterson was asked by the Presbyterian Church USA, to begin a new church outside Baltimore and he accepted-no one was more surprised than he.
And so was born Christ Our King Presbyterian Church. Peterson quickly learned that he was not exactly sure what a pastor should do. He needed to figure out a way to measure what the heart of the job really was and whether he was living up to his calling. And that was what he set out to do.
After twenty-nine years in that one pulpit, two decades as a professor and writing thirty books on the church, spirituality, and the Bible, Peterson decided to offer his life as an example and guide to others for what he discovered it means to be a pastor.
In The Pastor, Peterson challenges convention wisdom regarding church marketing, mega pastors, and the church's too cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to presents a simple, faith-based description of what being a minister means today. In the end, Peterson discovers that being a pastor boils down to "paying attention and calling attention to 'what is going on now' between men and women, with each other and with God."
"In our clamorous, celebrity-driven, entertainment culture, his life and words convey a quiet whisper of sanity, authenticity, and, yes, holiness." -Philip Yancey, New York Times-bestselling author of What Good is God
"A subtle manifesto of hope for our time." - Christianity Today
Autorentext
Eugene H. Peterson, author of The Message, a bestselling translation of the Bible, is professor emeritus of spiritual theology at Regent College, British Columbia, and the author of over thirty books. He and his wife, Jan, live in Montana.
Klappentext
In The Pastor, author Eugene Peterson, translator of the multimillion-selling The Message, tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions, Peterson challenges conventional wisdom regarding church marketing, mega pastors, and the church's too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple, faith-based description of what being a minister means today. In the end, Peterson discovers that being a pastor boils down to "paying attention and calling attention to 'what is going on now' between men and women, with each other and with God.”