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  • Pastor Paul

  • Nurturing a Culture of Christoformity in the Church
  • By: Scot McKnight
  • Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
  • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (29 ratings)

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Pastor Paul

By: Scot McKnight
Narrated by: David Cochran Heath
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Being a pastor is a complicated calling. Pastors are often pulled in multiple directions and must "become all things to all people" (1 Cor. 9:22). What does the New Testament say (or not say) about the pastoral calling? And what can we learn about it from the apostle Paul?

According to popular New Testament scholar Scot McKnight, pastoring must begin first and foremost with spiritual formation, which plays a vital role in the life and ministry of the pastor. As leaders, pastors both create and nurture culture in a church. The biblical vision for that culture is Christoformity, or Christlikeness. Grounding pastoral ministry in the pastoral praxis of the apostle Paul, McKnight shows that nurturing Christoformity was at the heart of the Pauline mission. The pastor's central calling, then, is to mediate Christ in everything. McKnight explores seven dimensions that illustrate this concept - friendship, siblings, generosity, storytelling, witness, subverting the world, and wisdom - as he calls pastors to be conformed to Christ and to nurture a culture of Christoformity in their churches.

©2019 Scot McKnight (P)2019 Baker Publishing Group
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I wish this book had been around when I was a young church pastor 25 years ago. I might still be a church pastor and I may not have failed as I did. highly recommended for church pastors and church parishioners. well done. Scott McKnight should be on everyone's reading list, bookmarked and dog-eared and marked up with a pen.

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Thankful for this encouragement and insight!

I'm writing this review in between the moments when my first reading of it has ended and the second reading is about to begin. The Lord has encouraged me through Scot McKnight's careful and humble consideration of what being a pastor means and doesn't mean. The overall themes that "a pastor pastors people" and that a pastor cultivates Christiformity within the body of Christ gently confront many areas of subtle drift in ministry focus. While reading, I often had to stop and praise the Lord. His ways are so very right and true, and McKnight's wisdom highlights that fact. Just as I mentioned at the start, I am reading this one again, starting today.

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Good and Plenty

McKnight delivers an excellent study into not only the leadership of Paul contained in his writings but the example that shone through humbly relating to those he shepherded.

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