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# The Pastor as Minor Poet: Texts and Subtexts in the Ministerial Life (Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Liturgical Studies) Paperback – December 30, 2008

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## Customer Reviews

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    Wonderful Read
  

*by C***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2023*

Purchased this book for a seminary class.  Loved it so much I bought a second copy and gifted it to my pastor.

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    A Work At Recapturing A Vocation
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2010*

In my perfect world the kinds of books ministry majors in Bible colleges and seminaries would read are exemplified by this offering by Barnes.  Instead of the corporate style leadership models and the slick gimmicking of church growth seminars, future pastors would soak in views of pastoring that begin and end with biblical influences and remain solidly against the reigning cultural models.  Barnes has written such a book.The goal, it seems, is to clarify a confusion pastors live with right now - what it means to be a pastor.  It seems to be a great problem if men and women are entering professions they can't properly or deeply define, but I think he is right.  We have simply let the role of pastor be defined for us in recent decades and we need to work to recover its true meaning.The image Barnes uses to control the book is that of pastor as a "minor poet."  Major poets are the larger-than-life biblical and historical figures who change almost everything, but the vast majority of us fit into the "minor poet" role as we work on translating the truths of God into a fuzzy and broken world.  All in all, I think the metaphor is a helpful one.  From time to time it seems a bit stretched, but it really comes home in some of the final chapters as Barnes uses T.S. Elliot's "The Three Voices of Poetry" to help define the pastoral vocation.  I was surprised at how helpful that rubric was.The book is short but important.  If you are a pastor, I challenge you to pick up this book and others like it to re-ground your vocation and break away from the definitions placed on you from the outside.  If you know someone wanting to be a pastor, give them this book and see how it strikes them.  I found it encouraging, helpful and needful at the same time.

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    What does it mean to pastor and be a pastor?
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014*

This is not a practical handbook as much as it is about the art of being an effective pastor.  In addition to pastoral counseling and visitation, the author points out that sermon writing is always a process that presents itself differently each time, necessarily so because of the work that goes into pastoring and specifically, a sermon.  An effective sermon is not written in 30 minutes, because when it is done as it should be, each paragraph, each phrase, each sentence, and even key words are carefully considered to carve into existence the created sculpture of the end product.  The sermon is like a live organism which needs expression in its depths.  Illustrations should be used sparingly, only for the purpose of expounding and restating the heart of the gospel message of the text on which it is based.At the same time it is not a practical handbook, it is actually more than that.  It is one soul who interacts with and reaches out to other souls, daily.  It would be helpful for a senior seminarian seminar course or CPE, then re-read at every couple of years intervals.

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