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Title: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry by John Piper ISBN: 0-8054-2620-5 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Godward Life, the pastor's version.
Comment: Those familiar with Piper's work will find no surprises in this book. That is not disappointing, but wonderful.
This is a collection of 30 articles, some of which were written for the GBC magazine, that Piper has written to church leaders. Those of us who have subscribed to his email sermon series and read his "fresh words" will see some old friends here. All the better. This material deserves to be seen by everyone in vocational ministry.
Powerful and pithy, Piper delivers 30 easy-to-read, important-to-do challenges from the bible for today's Pastors. Challenge, reminder, encouragement all find healthy dosage within this book.
If you can't wait to read his forthcoming "Counted Righteous In Christ" book, there's a teaser in one of the chapters.
The book also represents a slight shift as Piper uses the English Standard Version as his main bible. Those with their ear to the ground on such matters saw it coming.
Rating: 5
Summary: Passionate, Practical, Powerful
Comment: This may be the most important book written for pastors in the past decade. Piper sounds a clarion call for pastors to chunk professionalized ministry for the radical and humble, self-denying and soul-satisfying, culture-threatening and person-redeeming ministry commended in Scripture. "The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in our wake," Piper warns. This comes from the first of thirty chapters that chart for us how to cultivate radical, biblical ministry. Piper tells us to make God's glory central, pursue our joy in Him, go hard after God in prayer, labor over the Scriptures, read great books, study great lives, and emphasize soul-saving truths. This book is full of clear-thinking about both doctrinal issues (like eternal security) and ethical issues (like abortion), and the clear-thinking is joined with a hot-hearted passion for God, holiness, the Word, eternity, and the perishing. Brothers, this is a great book. If you want to be God's man for such a time as this, then get it, read it, meditate on it, pray over it, and above all, live it. God help us.
Rating: 4
Summary: Some great insights
Comment: I have to agree with the reviewer who commented on the sexist title. Those of us who agree with Piper that there are some unique roles for men and women, still understand that women are called to Christian ministry, even if we do not believe they should be leading churches.
In Australia some of our complementarian churches have several female ministers, leading women's ministries, etc. The title is unnecessarily offensive to those women.
I also agree with the people who pointed out that the book has little to say about its title, excepting for one chapter. Maybe it should be retitled "Christian Leaders, We Are Not Professionals, and other articles."
There is not really anything new here, as the articles, or something like them, have appeared on the Desiring God website, or in other books.
However, the book does contain some excellent articles. Some of those I have enjoyed include:
Brothers, Bitzer Was a Banker, which is an apology for continuing to study the biblical languages.
Brothers, Show Your People Why God Inspired Hard Texts
Brothers, Save the Saints
The article on not writing teetotalism into the church covenant [but then more or less insisting on it anyway] is a curious one. I find it hard to see how he has avoided legalism, as he thinks he has. When the bible clearly teaches us to enjoy God's good gift of wine, but also unambiguously tells us not to overindulge, to argue for teetotalism seems to me to be thinking you are wiser than God.
With these qualifications, I recommend this book.
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Title: Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper ISBN: 1581344988 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Worship by the Book by D. A. Carson, Mark Ashton, R. Kent Hughes, Timothy J. Keller ISBN: 0310216257 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Desiring God by John Piper ISBN: 1590521196 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Piper, John, Swans Are Not Silent, V. 3.) by John Piper ISBN: 1581344279 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching by R. Albert Mohler Jr., James Boice, Derek Thomas, Joel R. Beeke, R. C. Sproul, John Armstrong, Sinclair Ferguson, Don Kistler, Eric Alexander, John Piper ISBN: 1573581445 Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Pubns Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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