![]() ![]() Piper’s call to prayer, Bible reading, evangelism, and social engagement is well-founded. Fully 50% of ministers do not last 5 years in the ministry and only 10% of pastors actually retire as ministers. ![]() The statistics for survival in the ministry suggest that it is far from a comfortable experience. ![]() Most evangelicals do not go into the ministry to be comfortable. It also fails to address the fact that, at some level, professionalism in the ministry is a positive good! While this advice is good as far as it goes, it misses the point that ALL Christians have a radical call to follow Christ and seek His glory instead of our own comfort (1 Corinthians 10:31 Matthew 16:24-25). The subtitle of the book explains his thesis: “A Plea to Pastors for a Radical Ministry.” A desire to be comfortable and to have a nice career is incompatible with the radical call to follow Christ. 26 February 2015 / Ministers / Richard Holdeman A Professional MinistryĪ number of years ago John Piper famously wrote, “We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry… The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in our wake” ( Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, 2002). ![]()
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