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.
This book
challenges a “sacred cow” in modern church concerning its central figure. That
figure has nothing to do with Jesus. We’re talking the pastor. Jon Zens has hit
upon one of the biggest departures from the New Testament (NT) in what calls
itself church.
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