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In this revised and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals that features a new introduction and choose all-new chapters, best-selling creator 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 isn’t the mentality of the prophet. It’s 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 be able to leave in our wake. For there is not any professional childlikeness, there is not any professional tenderheartedness, there is not any professional panting after God.