Pre-Owned The Pastor: A Memoir (Hardcover) 0061988200 9780061988202

In The Pastor author Eugene Peterson translator of the multimillion-selling The Message tells the story of how he started Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air Maryland and his gradual discovery of what it really means to be a pastor. Steering away from abstractions Peterson challenges conventional wisdom regarding church marketing mega pastors and the church s too-cozy relationship to American glitz and consumerism to present a simple faith-based description of what being a minister means today. In the end Peterson discovers that being a pastor boils down to paying attention and calling attention to what is going on now between men and women with each other and with God.