In The Pastor, Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the
multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty
books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly
neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor?
When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new
church in Bel Air, Maryland, he surprised himself by saying yes.
And so was born Christ Our King Presbyterian Church. But Peterson
quickly learned that he was not exactly sure what a pastor should
do. He had met many ministers in his life, from his Pentecostal
upbringing in Montana to his seminary days in New York, and he
admired only a few. He knew that the job's demands would drown him
unless he figured out what the essence of the job really was. Thus
began a thirty-year journey into the heart of this uncommon
vocation--the pastorate.
The Pastor steers away from abstractions, offering instead a
beautiful rendering of a life tied to the physical world--the land,
the holy space, the people--shaping Peterson's pastoral vocation as
well as his faith. He takes on church marketing, mega pastors, and
the church's too-cozy relationship to American glitz and
consumerism to present a simple, faith-filled job description of
what being a pastor means today. In the end, Peterson discovered
that being a pastor boiled down to "paying attention and calling
attention to 'what is going on right now' between men and women,
with each other and with God." The Pastor is destined to become a
classic statement on the contemporary trials, joys, and meaning of
this ancient vocation.
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