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According to Eugene Peterson, American pastors are abandoning their posts at an alarming rate. They are not leaving their churches and getting other jobs. Instead, they have become “a company of shopkeepers, and the shops they keep are churches.” Pastors and the communities they serve have become preoccupied with image and standing, with administration, measurable success, sociological impact,...

“Hot indignation seizes me …” (Ps. 119:53). I don’t know how many share my anger. I know a few names. Altogether there can’t be very many of us. Are there yet seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal? Are there enough to be identifiable as a minority? I think so. We recognize each other from time to time. And much has been accomplished by minorities. And there must be any number of shopkeepers who by now are finding the pottage that they acquired in exchange for their ordination birthright
Pages 3–4
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