Was it realistic to think I could develop [into] something maybe more like a contemplative pastor - a pastor who was able to be with people without having an agenda for them, a pastor who was able to accept people as they were and guide them gently and patiently into a mature life in Christ but not get in the way, let the Holy Spirit do the guiding?(Eugene Peterson, The Pastor, p.210)
Saturday 20 February 2016
On wanting to be a contemplative pastor
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