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God has willed that we should seek and find God’s living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings. Therefore, Christians need other Christians who speak God’s Word to them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Daniel W. Bloesch (Translator) • Life Together
humans still stand out by their failure to be clearly limited by a particular nature as other creatures are.
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
The pastor is not the one who saves people from any or all of the impingements. Rather, the pastor is the one who reminds the community that though God seems absent, nevertheless the God who is a minister arrives right here in the middle of such events of impingement, when things seem so hard.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Beeley provides much discussion and several examples from the church fathers in his Unity of Christ, esp. 39, 134, 164, 193.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
“Living Unconverted” Under a Godly Minister
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
Catherine Keller, “After Omnipotence: Power as Process,” in On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
sacred companionship.
Sharon Brous • The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World
All forms of transformation that bring life, wholeness, and healing take the shape of ministry.