Sublime

If a congregation wants change, it will start not by being concerned with relevance and resources, but with the good life of resonance, seeking for the living Christ where Christ can be found, in the disclosure of personhood, where time is not made to accelerate but becomes full and sacred. Time becomes full and sacred through the continued disclos

CHAPTER 13 Sacred

If Edwards was pushing his people up the hill of holiness, making priests of them all, Beecher layman-ized the priesthood, making the pastor just like one of the people.

The way that this modern moral order takes shape around chosen identity makes it complicated for pastors. If the church or the pastor tries too hard to shape a person’s life, it will be a violation of the modern moral order.

John O’Donohue, a former Irish Catholic priest, philosopher, poet, and, in his own words, mystic

since our hearts are made to find their end in God, we will experience a besetting anxiety and restlessness when we try to love substitutes.

Before you can become the Warrior, you must become the Beloved Son. And in order to truly become the Beloved Son, you will need to reclaim your heart. That is the first mission that will find you and every man: the dangerous and glorious mission of getting your heart back. Until you’ve accomplished that, anything else you attempt is moving out ahea

of Jesus Christ).