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NT Wright on studying, pastoring and the unlikely ways God uses us.
This is so true. Encouraging and humbling.
This is a great article from Christianity Today, last July.
A must read for anyone who love Jesus, the church and their pastor(s).
Encouraging, honest and helpful blog series by CJ Mahaney on “Ordinary Pastors”. This is a must read for all pastors who consider themselves ordinary. My favorite? Part 9: Be Amazed They Came Back! Here’s an excerpt:
I think you should be amazed that those who heard you preach last Sunday come back—and even at times bring guests. No one should be more amazed than the ordinary pastor when people return. Why should I be amazed? Because I preached last Sunday!
Hilarious (and true).
“No one, whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so – the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.”
“No matter how extensive one’s scriptural knowledge, how amazing one’s memory, it is self-deception if that is all there is. True knowledge is the prelude to action, and it is obedience to the Word that counts in the end.”
Suicide: When pastors’ silent suffering turns tragic (USA Today)
