In this revised and expanded edition of Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, that includes a new introduction and select all-new chapters, best-selling author 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 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.”

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“May the Holy Spirit use this book to help ignite the next generation with a passion to deny themselves and take up their crosses to serve Christ and his sheep from every tribe, tongue, and nation.” — BURK PARSONS, pastor, Saint Andrew’s Chapel, Lake Mary, Florida

“It will challenge you. It will instruct you. And most of all, it will encourage you as you shepherd God’s flock which he has entrusted to your care.” — DANIEL L. AKIN, president, Southeast Baptist Theological Seminary

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JOHN PIPER is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served more than thirty years as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. His books include The Supremacy of God in Preaching and Don’t Waste Your Life.

Numner of pages: 320

Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5″