Sublime

Sometimes it’s the preacher who is “out of season.” If we are in places where we are not called, or if God has willed us to be in a place where others enjoy success while we suffer failures, even while preaching and leading faithfully, it is only because he wants to conform us more to the image of Christ, who was despised and rejected.

You and I both know that you have transgressed over and over and over again. And you’re going to stand before a holy God to be judged by these things, according to a stricter standard than all others because you are a pastor, and he will ask you to give an account. And looking back over the failures of your life and ministry, you will grasp at stra

The right response to the survey of this wearying battlefield is not timidity or a pity party, but clinging more desperately to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The justification for the sin-prone pastor—by which I mean simply the pastor—is the same as it is for every sinner. There is no Justification 2.0 for ministers of the gospel.

Peace, Walter Brueggemann

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