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The core claim centers on restoring the distinctive pastor’s work: helping others listen for God’s speech through Scripture, prayer, and the neighbor. It frames prayer, Scripture reading, and spiritual direction as foundational, quiet acts that shape everything else.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWorking the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity is the second of three books on the work of pastors in North America. The three books together are designed to provide a biblical orientation and theological understanding in cultural conditions decidedly uncongenial to such orientation and understanding.  \nThis second volume provides an antidote to the powerful pressures that reduce pastoral vocation to a managerial religious job of running a church by defining the distinctive work of the pastor as listening and helping others to listen to God as he speaks in Scripture, prayer, and the neighbor.  \nFive Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work is the first and Under the Unpredictable Plant: An Exploration in Vocational Holiness the third book in the series.  \nEugene H. Peterson  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWorking the Angles  \nThe Shape of Pastoral Integrity  \nEugene H. Peterson  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Jeffrey Dirk Wilson  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction  \nMERICAN PASTORS are abandoning their posts, left and right, and at an alarming rate. They are not leaving their churches and getting other jobs. Congregations still pay their salaries. Their names remain on the church stationery and they continue to appear in pulpits on Sundays. But they are abandoning their posts, their calling. They have gone whoring after other gods. What they do with their time under the guise of pastoral ministry hasn't the remotest connection with what the church's pastors have done for most of twenty centuries.  \nA few of us are angry about it. We are angry because we have been deserted. Most of my colleagues who defined ministry for me, examined, ordained, and then installed me as a pastor in a congregation, a short while later walked off and left me, having, they said, more urgent things to do. The people I thought I would be working with disappeared when the work started. Being a pastor is difficult work; we want the companionship and counsel of allies. It is bitterly disappointing to enter a room full of people whom you have every reason to expect share the quest and commitments of pastoral work and find within ten minutes that they most definitely do not. They talk of images and statistics. They drop names. They discuss influence and status. Matters of God and the soul and Scripture are not grist for their mills.  \nThe pastors of America have metamorphosed into a company of shopkeepers, and the shops they keep are churches. They are preoccupied with shopkeeper's concerns-how to keep the customers happy, how to lure customers away from competitors down the street, how to package the goods so that the customers will lay out more money.  \nSome of them are very good shopkeepers. They attract a lot of customers, pull in great sums of money, develop splendid reputations. Yet it is still shopkeeping; religious shopkeeping, to be sure, but shopkeeping all the same. The marketing strategies of the fast-food franchise occupy the waking minds of these entrepreneurs; while asleep they dream of the kind of success that will get the attention of journalists. \"A walloping great congregation is fine, and fun,\" says Martin Thornton, \"but what most communities really need is a couple of saints. The tragedy is that they may well, be there in embryo, waiting to be discovered, waiting for sound training, waiting to be emancipated from the cult of the mediocre.\"i  \nThe biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and villages all over the world. The Holy Spirit gathers them and does his work in them. In these communities of sinners, one of the sinners is called pastor and given a designated responsibility in the community. The pastor's responsibility is to keep the community attentive to God. 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