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Title: Under the Unpredictable Plant an Exploration in Vocational Holiness by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0-8028-0848-4 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding - For Pastors and Lay Leaders
Comment: Eugene Peterson is a prolific writer - and this is a good book to read first. In this book, the author takes you into his confidence and writes movingly of his rich background and the influence of his godly parents. You learn about the man - and this will make his many other books very enjoyable and capable of providing inspiration and guidance.
Under the Unpredictable Plant did not provide a compass as much as it affirmed my own journey. The book can certainly provide guidance in our culture.
It is an excellent book for church leaders to read. Perhaps the greatest benefit will be to help church leaders from having unrealistic expectations about their pastors.
After reading this book, the reader can look forward to many more enjoyable hours of reading other books by this man. Along with that enjoyment will be the opportunity to deepen and enhance your own spiritual journey.
It is a pleasure to recommend this book - and to get to know a very special man - Eugene Peterson - as he opens his heart and his life to the readers.
Max Rondoni
Rating: 4
Summary: Three Stars for Clarity, Five for the Message
Comment: Unlike the other reviewers, I am not a minister although I read this book because I am thinking of candidating.
Briefly looking at the content of the book, Peterson uses the book of Jonah as a story-metaphor for what he sees as the ideal way of being a minister. It seems to me that he has two main points: 1) that a minister must first and foremost be grounded in a spirit-filled life through prayer and; 2) to achieve that, the minister must stay in one church throughout his or her whole ministry to really be rooted in the lives of people in the congregation.
He develops other points such as the idea that American culture wants the minister to be first and foremost a "program director" rather than a "spiritual director". He believes that the expectation of the church hierarchies as well as congregations is that ministers will whip up the action and make things happened as if they were PR executives rather than healers of souls. In contrast, Peterson advocates a ministry of waiting and watching for the God who walks before all of us so that the minister does not interfere with the work of the Holy Spirit.
This book is written almost as a series of images, metaphors, stories and parables rather than as a propositional treatise, which is hardly surprising given the author's literary background. While this allows the reader to make of some of the messages what he or she will, I found myself thinking "I KNOW the church hierarchy will try to push me to be a glorified PR executive if I'm successful in candidating for the ministry, but what steps can one take to avoid that happening in the first place?" I don't think this book answers that question and I think it's one of the main questions he poses. Perhaps we are to figure out the answer ourselves?...?
Rating: 5
Summary: PASTORS....Listen carefully.
Comment: I am pastor of a United Methodist two-point charge. Two churches. Many headaches. I've been here three and a half years. I am told numerous pastors "start-out" in smaller, typically rural or town churches as mine are. Then we get noticed and we get moved on up the ladder. Better appointment--better pay--more prestige--better location. How many pastors buy into "the ladder"? More than you think. But Peterson does not. This book planted my feet deeply within my call. I wanted to move into bigger, better, different pastorates. Peterson would tell me, "You wanted to go to Tarshish instead of Ninevah." His book forced me to recognize that the grass is not greener in a different parish. Comparing me to Jonah, Peterson left me no excuse of any theological integrity to leave my two-point charge. So here I stay. But Mr. Peterson, if you read this..."Under the Unpredictable Plant" is a horrible title. Few of the dozens of people to whom I have recommended your book can remember that crazy thought.
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Title: Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802806600 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802801145 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0802802656 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson ISBN: 0830822577 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Unnecessary Pastor: Rediscovering the Call by Marva J. Dawn, Eugene H. Peterson, Peter Santucci ISBN: 0802846785 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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