The Pastor Has No Clothes: Moving from Clergy-Center Church to Christ-Centered Ekklesia

This new release is now available everywhere. This book challenges a “sacred cow” in modern church concerning its central figure. That figure has nothing to do with Jesus. We’re talking the pastor. Jon Zens has hit upon one of the biggest departures from the New Testament (NT) in what calls itself church.

Nowhere can you find in the NT a permission or direction to set up a man over a body of believers in the way of modern religious groups have done. And consequently, we see something else in religious circles not seen in the early church: laity malaise and a flaccid community of believers waiting for a person to “feed” them and goad them into religious activities. In the early church leadership was pluralistic and there was no such thing as clergy/laity distinction.

Jon’s book is a call to return to the biblical design where Christ is the head and everyone has a role to work as a part of the body, both leaders and developing believers. The early church didn’t have useless functions like usher, special music and sunday school attendance; which have nothing to do with the maturing of the saints… The early church was more like a basic training camp where people were all functional and/or training towards it.

If you are tired of Sunday-going-to-meeting and don’t know why, read this book and see if you’re not encouraged. This book is about solutions. Jon feels as much for the ministers who are victimized by the “pastoral system” as he does for parishioners who a left to warm pews and throw money for their entire existence in what calls itself church…

Please check out a quick video where Jon shares in his own words about his new book. He answers a few questions that helps flesh out what he hopes for in this book. See: