Brothers We Are Not Professionals

Chapter 1 | Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

Chapter 2 | Brothers, God Loves His Glory

Chapter 3 | Brothers, God Is Love

Chapter 4 | Brothers, Live and Preach Justification by Faith

Chapter 5 | Brothers, Beware of the Debtor's Ethic

Chapter 6 | Brothers, Tell Them Not to Serve God

Chapter 7 | Brothers, Consider Christian Hedonism

Chapter 8 | Brothers, Let Us Pray

Chapter 9 | Brothers, Beware of Sacred Substitutes

Chapter 10 | Brothers, Fight for Your Life

Chapter 11 | Brothers, Let Us Query the Text

Chapter 12 | Brothers, Bitzer Was a Banker

Chapter 13 | Brothers, Read Christian Biography

Chapter 14 | Brothers, Show Your People Why God Inspired Hard Text

Chapter 15 | Brothers, Save the Saints

Chapter 16 | Brothers, We Must Feel the Truth of Hell

Chapter 17 | Brothers, Lead Them to Repentance through Their Pleasure

Chapter 18 | Brothers, Magnify the Meaning of Baptism

Chapter 19 | Brothers, Our Affection Is for Their Comfort

Chapter 20 | Brothers, Let the River Run Deep

Chapter 21 | Brothers, Don't Fight Flesh Tanks with Peashooter Regulations

Chapter 22 | Brothers, Don't Confuse Uncertainty with Humility

Chapter 23 | Brothers, Tell Them Copper Will Do

Chapter 24 | Brothers, Help Your People Hold On and Minister in Calamity

Chapter 25 | Brothers, Give Them God's Passion for Missions

Chapter 26 | Brothers, Sever the Root of Racism

Chapter 27 | Brothers, Blow the Trumpet for the Unborn

Chapter 28 | Brothers, Focus on the Essence of Worship, Not the Form

Chapter 29 | Brothers, Love Your Wife’s

Chapter 30 | Brothers, Pray for the Seminaries

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.

“Brothers, we are not professionals. We are outcasts. We are aliens and exiles in the world. Our citizenship is in Heaven, and we wait with eager expectation for the Lord (Phil. 3:20). You cannot professionalize the love for His appearing without killing it. And it is being killed.

“The world sets the agenda of the professional man; God sets the agenda of the spiritual man. The strong wine of Jesus Christ explodes the wine- skins of professionalism.”