Let Us Prey, Revised Edition

The Plague of Narcissist Pastors and What We Can Do About It

Darrell Puls

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Jahr: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781725257306
• Thema: Theology & Religion
• Thema: Christian Ministry

Jesus warned of wolves carefully disguised as shepherds coming into local churches as pastors. It is the perfect disguise for a predator to access and devour the flock one lamb at a time while proclaiming himself as their protector and guardian. The result is spiritual devastation, broken congregations, and even destroyed churches. Darrell Puls attests from experience that the enemy has infiltrated the North American church through pastors with dangerously high levels of narcissism. These pastors hide under layers of the sacred, but it is always an illusion of smoke and mirrors.Puls has experienced this reality from the inside as a staff pastor under a narcissist, and from the outside as a church consultant. He carefully unpacks toxic narcissism in everyday terms, and lets the victims tell their own stories. Let Us Prey, Revised Edition is as real as it gets.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Revised Edition
• 1 Into Darkness
• 2 What Are Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
• 3 The Work and Habits of the Narcissist Pastor
• 4 Unmasked
• 5 The Narcissist as Leader
• 6 The Toll
• 7 The Spiritual Life of the Narcissist Pastor
• 8 The Narcissist Pastor as Spouse and Parent
• 9 The Narcissistic Church
• 10 Healing the People
• 11 Healing the Church
• 12 Prevention
• 13 Now What?
• Bibliography