The Pastor's Kid

What It's Like and How to Help

By: Barnabas Piper, John Piper - foreword

Narrated by: Barnabas Piper, John Piper

Advice on how to care for pastors’ kids and allow them to find their own faith and identity.

Pastors’ kids are often burdened by others’ expectations, but there is a wonderful solution, both at home and in the church: grace.

In this revised, refreshed version of Barnabas Piper’s best-known book, the author candidly shares his own experiences as son of pastor and best-selling author John Piper, offering a challenge to our churches and to the families at their very heart: how to care for pastors’ kids and allow them to find their own faith and identity.

Foreword by John Piper.

©2014, 2020 Barnabas Piper (P)2020 One Audiobooks

Going from teaching PK’s to having one in my family

Being a first generation Christian and engaging with God’s word has been the joy of my life. I was saved in midlife. And so I desired to learn the Word so that I could share it in teaching adults and kids. This book confirmed the needed correction I endured at the hand of my loving pastor after inadvertently holding his child to a higher standard in my class. That conversation changed my life, considering that I now have a grandson who is a PK. This book nailed the appropriate awareness all church members should have in relating to children of pastors. They are real people in need of saving grace, just like me. Thank you Barnabas for the courage it must have taken to write this book.

Very relatable and helpful

I was not a pastor’s kid, so I can’t resonate with every part of this book, but I was raised in a strict fundamentalist baptist church with authoritarian style parenting at home. So much of this book hit home and it helped to put words to things I felt growing up. It also helped me as a parent to see some mistakes I was making for lack of knowing better. I found a real faith in my 30’s and have some parts in ministry, so I am so thankful to have read this book while my child is still young. I highly recommend this book to not just pastors kids, but everyone in the church.

Very enlightening perspective

As a mother of four PK’s, I found this book to answer so many of my own concerns regarding how to interact with my children and their unique perspectives, which in this context is not so unique after all. I plan to have each of them, and my husband read (or listen) to this immediately. This book gave me the understanding/point of view I was praying for. I recommend this for all church members who care at all about the pastor and his family.

If you are church Elder, read this so that you can minister to the PK!

If you are interacting on a daily basis with PK’s or Elders kids or even Deacons kids…..
You should read this so that you know how to minister to them!
This is very encouraging and informative.

Preachers’ Kid

I am 64 year old PK daughter whose father received the calling when I was 11 years old.
This book has helped me to understand the dynamics involved within the church and outside community of a small New England town.
I am so grateful to receive some validation for what happened to me and my parents.
I believe this book should be required reading for anyone entering the ministry.
Well… maybe there IS a God, after all.