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The pastor is never a private chaplain to individuals; the pastor is never an impersonal speaker to crowds; the pastor is set in community and given the task of building that community.

one-on-one relationships. It envisions every Christian having a mentor and mentoring someone else down the line.

In Western mysticism there is the beautiful idea of the “communion of saints.” These are not the saints ordained by an institutional religious process; they are all of us. In the communion of interconnection we do not individually possess all gifts, but partake of one another’s gifts as we offer our own, forging a graced and complete whole.

we return to our own World 48 as viaducts of those transformed Christic fruits—peace, gentleness, love, patience, joy, love, kindness, forbearance, self-control

begins to read christologically, with all stories, signs, and symbols pointing directly to Christ.