Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, John Piper
Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, John Piper
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Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry

Author: John Piper

Narrator: John Piper

Unabridged: 9 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2013


Synopsis

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.”

About John Piper

John Piper is a bestselling author, a major evangelical leader, and the founder of Desiring God Ministries. For over thirty years, he was pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has written more than fifty books, including Desiring God.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph

I know. Five stars. Five stars says : Crème de la crème. Why did I rate this so high? Because I believe the author accomplished what he sat out to do and did it in a fantastic way. Imagine my perspective: Newly saved, called to be a pastor, has barely started on the path to becoming a pastor and by G......more

Goodreads review by Brian

1. Read in 2013 with my pastor, Jeremy McMorris 2. Read in 2022 with the pastors at our church in Brazil......more

Goodreads review by Luke

This book is a collection of essays on a variety of ministry and theology topics. Solid, biblical perspective, filled with excellent quotes and illustrations. Very concise, so it pays well for your reading time. Years ago, this was the first Piper book that I read (right before I read "Desiring God")......more

I am surprised by how deeply my own pastoral, theological, and devotional instincts parallel Piper's. His emphases are my emphases, in many cases and in many subjects. Part of this may be due to his influence over the years, though admittedly the number of sermons and writings by Piper that I have r......more

Goodreads review by Philip

Piper does a great job at dealing with subjects that need to be dealt with. His focus on Christ when it comes to the great things of pastoral ministry and some of the lesser things of pastoral ministry made this a delight to read.......more