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“The path of obedient, faithful ministry begins when we drop our roles as busy religious salespeople working for God and instead recapture our calling to live with him and, in turn, invite others into that life.2 Sadly, this is increasingly difficult because often what is measured and rewarded is quite the opposite.”
― Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure
― Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure
“Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.”
― Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being
― Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being
“Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“Sadly, this need to be needed fuels many of our pastoral motivations. Left unchecked, people begin to need us as pastor and confidant more than they need God as Savior and Father.”
― Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure
― Fail: Finding Hope and Grace in the Midst of Ministry Failure
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