The Pastor Has No Clothes

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the pastor the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastors basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14 Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Pauls self-evident remark that the body indeed is not one part and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions with many parts. Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response to Eugene Petersons The Pastor: A Memoir with three past articles and excerpts from his response to Dr. Ben Witheringtons review of Pagan Christianity.