A quivering mass of availability
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Will Willimon writes in Pastor:
The pastor is [often] reduced to the level of the soother of anxieties brought on by the dilemmas of
Dying Church
Ordained to give itself away
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The Church is the only institution which, without irresponsibility, can expend all its resources on great and lavish outbursts of compassion. It is ordained
Being in the Church, Not of It
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Henri Nouwen wrote:
Often we hear the remark that we have live in the world without being of the world. But it may be
Abandoning their posts
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From Eugene Peterson:
American pastors are abandoning their posts, left and right, and at an alarming rate. They are not leaving their churches and
Praying For God’s Spirit To Sit This One Out
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From Speaking Out of Turn:
This past Sunday as I walked to the podium to preach for our fourth service I prayed a prayer