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“Second, God sometimes calls us to a congregation when we don’t yet have what it needs. Sometimes we can’t help a people until after we’ve been with them for a while, and being with them is the means God uses to teach us what he wants us to offer them. For”
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
“The worst ministry work assumes that the old ways of doing things are the best ways simply because “that’s the way it’s always been done.” You”
― The Prodigal Church: A Gentle Manifesto against the Status Quo
― The Prodigal Church: A Gentle Manifesto against the Status Quo
“Ways teach. They form the primary classrooms of our learning. For better and for worse, we learn to see the world and present ourselves in it for witness, not just from creedal statements we learn in class but also from relational mentoring with those with whom we do life (Prov. 13:20; 22:24–25). I”
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
“Patience says to your empty hands, “God is here.” Patience looks the worst in the face and says, “God will not leave you.”
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
“To be quick to listen means that we do not say the first thing or everything we think (slow to speak), even if we are right, even if we are preachers or evangelists. Nor do we give immediate voice or vent even to the strongest emotions that pulsate within our chests (slow to anger), no matter how strongly we feel them. If you don’t mind, take a moment and reread those last two sentences.”
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
― The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
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