The Pastor: A Memoir
A Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir book. Congregation is composed of people, who, upon entering a church, leave behind what...
In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor? When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new church in Bel Air, Maryland, he surprised himself by...
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- Pages: 336 pages
- ISBN: 9780061988202 / 0
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I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it. Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir drugged their despair with Thunderbird and buried their dead visions and dreams in the alley behind the Pastime, ignorant of the God at work beneath their emptiness. Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans. Eugene H. Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir
This was a very uneven read for me. I am an artistic sort, and I like a good meandering walk through a life. But I guess if a life is small, I want it to be paired with the most beautiful of prose. And this had neither. There were times when the author would speak about his views of reality, and then I would sit up and take notice.... Eugene Peterson is the author of The Message version of the Bible. Having grown up believing that the King James Version was the ONLY version worth reading, I resisted reading The Message for quite some time. I did read another book by Eugene Peterson some time ago and was super impressed. Recently, though, I have been so enjoying the... The Pastor: A Memoir (2012) by Eugene Peterson is a remarkable book, full of wisdom and beauty. Undoubtedly, Peterson is a storyteller, one who draws the reader into his reflections on a lifetime as a pastor, not as a job, but as a true vocation. From his early life in mountains of Montana to his later aspirations to become a professor,...
