The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity

Short Review: I think this is a helpful book for pastors to read and think about how to be a better parent for their kids. It is also useful for lay leadership to read to think about how churches can minimize unhealthy expectations put on pastoral families (although I think that a lot of the expectations are self imposed.) I think that some pastor's kids are also good readers. But by the time you are really old enough to read it and get something out of it, all of the preventative things in the book are really too late.

I think there is a tone problem. It feels like Piper is wagging his finger at everyone telling them to do better. The last chapter is about how there are real benefits to being a pastor's kid. And that was a good conclusion, but some of the tone of that last chapter needed to seep through the rest of the book. I still think it is worth reading, but I think it could have been better.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-pastors-kid/