The Pastor Has No Clothes: Moving from Clergy-Centered Church to Christ Centered Ekklesia

Zens, Jon H

ISBN 10: 0982744641 / ISBN 13: 9780982744642

Published by Quoir, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pastor Has No Clothes: Moving from Clergy-Centered Church to Christ Centered Ekklesia
• Publisher: Quoir
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982744641
• ISBN 13: 9780982744642
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions "with many parts." Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response to Eugene Peterson's The Pastor: A Memoir, with three past articles and excerpts from his response to Dr. Ben Witherington's review of Pagan Christianity.