More from Craig Barnes’ ‘The Pastor As Minor Poet’ (Eerdmans, 2009). The contemporary weight of confused expectations about role and function can lead to pastors being unclear about their own identity in Christ. To be of service to the Holy Spirit, who is at work in human lives, the pastor can never reduce ministry to …

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Tullian Tchividjian: As I’ve said before, I once assumed (along with the vast majority of professing Christians) that the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, while afterward we advance to deeper theological waters. But I’ve come to realize that once God rescues sinners, his plan isn’t to steer them …

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