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Brothers, We Are Not Professionals
John Piper
其他書名
A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry
出版B&H Publishing Group, 2002
主題Business & Economics / Careers / GeneralReligion / Christian Living / Calling & VocationReligion / Christian Ministry / Pastoral ResourcesReligion / Christian Living / Leadership & MentoringReligion / Christian Ministry / General
ISBN08054262059780805426205
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ADR55zm7jkAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋John Piper pleads with fellow pastors to abandon the secularization 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. 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 wineskins of professionalism. - Back cover.