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November 23, 2004

The Pastor Can't Do it Alone

(Filed under: The Christian Walk)

Marketing guru Seth Godin (author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside) has released a previous book in a free PDF format for a limited time only: The Bootstrapper's Bible.

The 103-page PDF covers the typical "bootstrapper" in business, the person who picks themselves up by their own bootstraps, making a business happen with few resources. It strikes me that these are the kinds of people needed in the church to make things happen. Often, they are pastors. But let's face it: pastors can't do it all on their own. Pew-warming lay people need to step up and help the church to be more.

As a side note, Godin comments on his own blog about the successfulness of spreading an idea when it's offered for free.

UPDATE: The limited time to download "The Bootstrapper's Bible" has expired, but Godin gives permission for others to post it online, so here it is:

The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin (PDF 1.1 MB)

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks at November 23, 2004 2:14 PM

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Hi Kevin,
This is my first attempt at commenting so here goes. The Pastor, Hmmm where did that role, as we know it today, ever come from? What most pastors do for 103% of their time has nothing to do with the Kingdom and everything to do with baseless traditions and as you say lazy pew-warmers. In defense though of lazy pew warmers where did the concept of sitting quietly on a wooden bench ingesting prechewed food come from anyway? Consider for a moment a picture from the life cycle of a human being; there are only two times in our lives when it is socially acceptable to be fed, when we are infants and when we are dying. In between those times we feed ourselves. I'm not suggesting a lone ranger, boot strapper mentality, far from it. I am an active advocate of a radical (Latin for "root") old way of being and doing church. I am for the gifts being at work and the gifted ones working, that is all believers with pulses. Finally, as for pastors not doing it all, the it we think of the it the Bible presents are unimaginably different. I'll try and get back later to keep this thought going.

Posted by: SteveV at December 5, 2004 2:35 PM

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