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Do we love God and others enough to drop the pretense and just be ourselves? Only the gospel simultaneously provides the humility and the confidence the pastor needs to be his real self. The pastorate is no place for image-managing, for worrying about our own PR. In any event, if everybody likes you, something’s wrong, and if everybody hates you,
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
The justified pastor—the man justified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone to God’s glory alone, who happens to be a pastor—when taken on his good day or bad day, ministry high or ministry low, will be received with gladness and welcome. Clothed in the righteousness of him in whom you trust, how can you be turned away? You will not
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Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
I am always leery when asked about various spiritual undertakings. Whether it’s a rule of prayer or a rule of fasting, the true struggle is never found in doing what is extraordinary. It is, rather, the very difficult matter of enduring what is given to us. God, in His providence, allows us all that is necessary for our salvation. Grace is
... See moreIt is the converted, baptized, ordained Augustine who confesses, “Onus mihi, oneri mihi sum”: “I am a burden to myself.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
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Perhaps this is what pastoral ministry is supposed to look like? Maybe applying the gospel to those in the holes they keep falling into is the mission. Or part of it, anyway. Jesus says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23), so we should expect that every day feels like death
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