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Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
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, s
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
writer Leo Rosten once argued was the purpose of life: “to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”6 The pathless path has helped me see that quitting my job was never about escaping work or living an easier life, it was about using the gifts I received from my parents to
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Then I ran across the old Quaker
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
action by personifying acceptance and friendship. It is the pastor’s task, Henry believed, to run at the speed of intimacy—and this was very different from pastors before him.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
But Noel tells me his job is simply a chance to be “a minister of common grace.”