{"id":55708,"date":"2022-12-21T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=55708"},"modified":"2022-12-21T09:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T15:02:12","slug":"best-books-for-pastors-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=55708","title":{"rendered":"Best Books for Pastors in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We asked pastors around the world a simple question: what books did you read in 2022 that helped you be a better pastor? We\u2019ve curated their responses below. (See our 2020 list <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/best-books-for-pastors-in-2020\/\">here<\/a>, 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/best-books-for-pastors-in-2019\/\">here<\/a>, 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/best-books-for-pastors-in-2018\/\">here<\/a>, and 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/best-books-for-pastors-in-2017\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>* * * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/spurgeon-the-pastor.jpeg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spurgeon-Pastor-Recovering-Biblical-Theological\/dp\/1087747848\"><em>Spurgeon the Pastor: Recovering a Biblical and Theological Vision for Ministry<\/em><\/a>, by Geoff Chang<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChang&#8217;s book does two things. First, it teaches biblical ecclesiology through Spurgeon&#8217;s own rich preaching, hilarious wit, and overall mastery of the English language. Second, it encourages pastors to follow Spurgeon&#8217;s own tireless example in guarding the church&#8217;s membership, faithfully practicing discipline, raising up elders, and equipping the saints for the work of the ministry. Having Chang lead you into the trenches of pastoral ministry with Spurgeon isn&#8217;t just instructive, it&#8217;s inspiring.\u201d \u2013 Sam Emadi, senior pastor of Hunsinger Lane Baptist Church in Louisville, KY<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was encouraged to read how Spurgeon sought to maintain biblical convictions even though his church grew astronomically. Spurgeon practiced the nine marks before there was 9Marks! \u2013 Alex Hong, pastor of Christian Fellowship Bible Church in West Covina, CA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/strange-new-world.jpeg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-New-World-Activists-Revolution\/dp\/1433579308\"><em>Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution<\/em><\/a>, by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked pastors around the world a simple question: what books did you read in 2022 that helped you be a better pastor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":55786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[328],"class_list":["post-55708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9marks","tag-discipleship","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/spurgeon-the-pastor-194x300-1-1.jpeg?fit=194%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55787,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708\/revisions\/55787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}