Confessions of a Pastor: Adventures in Dropping the Pose and Getting Real with God

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	Confessions of a Pastor: Adventures in Dropping the Pose and Getting Real with God Craig Groeschel Multnomah Books, 2006 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Dark Side of a Pastor?s Life?A Breath of Fresh Air

Are you tired of pretending? Living walled up? Going only skin deep? Craig Groeschel , pastor of the thriving LifeChurch.tv, sure was. And in his refreshingly raw and real book, he comes clean. Not that he has anything other than typical, human stuff to confess. Check out a few of his musings: I have to work hard to stay sexually pure, I hate prayer meetings, sometimes I doubt God , and I can?t stand a lot of Christians . Through his incredible honesty, he opens the door for you to follow suit. Are you ready to dig deep and let God shine through the genuine you? No more living just to please others. No more hiding. You can be who God called you to be. You can live for an audience of One.

Is the real you getting lost

because the fake you is just so annoyingly

impressive?

?Stepping onto the platform to preach that morning, I admitted to myself that I was not a pastor first, but a regular, scared, insecure, everyday guy whose life had been changed by Jesus. And if Jesus really loved me as I was (I knew He did), then why should I go on trying to be someone I wasn?t??

Why do we fake it so much? Why do we spend so much time trying to please everyone else and make so little effort trying to please God? When Craig Groeschel asked himself those questions, he couldn?t come up with a good answer. So one day he decided to drop the act and start getting real. With that one choice, his life began to change in a big way. And yours can too. Craig?s passionate, funny, warts-and-all confessions?and the lessons he learned from them?will help you find your own path to authentic living and a deeper relationship with God (you know He?s on to you anyway!).

Story Behind the Book

?For too many years my life had been a show?my lines well rehearsed and every performance polished. By college, I played so many different roles I lost track of the real me. I began to wonder if there was a real me. Exhausted from playing the parts, I finally took off the masks?and met a God who loved me unconditionally. Confessions of a Pastor reveals in graphic detail my inner struggles, questions, doubts, and fears?to inspire others to abandon lives of pretending?and to meet the authentic love of God like never before.? ? Craig Groeschel

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Wake-Up Call for Church Leaders

I was looking for a book to use in my introductory pastoral counselling course. The kind of book I needed was one that would challenge students to be in touch with humanity. One that would help them be authentic people who could have the empathy needed for counselling. I certianly found that in this book and so much more... it ended up challenging me and doing more good for me than I expected. I started reading it and couldn't put it down. It's so down-to-earth and practical. The author is talking to the reader as to a friend. It's a definite book for church leaders today!

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great book!

great book....Craig is hilarious, if you are in ministry or thinking about it this should be the book for you. Craig is really real and open and helps you with a lot of your own ministry issues.

Great book!

This was a refreshing and encouraging book. I enjoyed the author's honesty and insight. It was also a quick, easy read.

good book

The Author/Pastor gets real about life and ministry. It's a good book, I recommend it.

Good book for those who are struggling with Christianity

I picked up this book because because of the cover. If you look really hard, the bubble above the guy's head says "I can't stand a lot of Christians...." I bought the book that day. It wasn't written as well as I would have liked, but it's not a horrible read.

Groeschel divides his book into chapters titled with his confessions. Some of the more amusing: "I Can't Stand a Lot of Christians," "I Hate Prayer Meetings," and "I Stink at Handling Criticism." But he also discloses on more personal topics, such as staying sexually pure, doubting God, and feeling lonely.

If there is one criticism of this book, it's that Groeschel occasionally launches into five steps to this and four warnings about that. But he does so without sounding like a motivational speaker, so it doesn't ruin the book.

The purpose of this book is to show that pastors are not super Christians. They struggle with the same things that regular people do all the time. Groeschel tells about some of the disciplines that he has developed to combat his weaknesses, and one can learn from reading about them.

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