Pastoral life requires an embrace of personal locality.
I struggle with reaching out.
What do you suppose the work of a pastor entails in light of this? He sends at minimum, we would assume local attentiveness to divine love, among ordinary people and places, with local weather and stories. And right here, the words “attentive” to “ordinary people and local places” challenge our border greatly, for we pastors have a penchant for finding purpose for pastoral work not in Eden with God, in the grand locality of limits with him, but instead with the Serpent, who brashly whispered there, speaking delusions of an unlimited life into the world.
Zack Eswine, The Imperfect Pastor, Crossway, 2015, pg 39.
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