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” …

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From Paul David Tripp: …I am persuaded that the problem with the body of Christ is not that we are dissatisfied with what we do not have, but that we are all too satisfied with what we do have. We are comfortable with a little bit of holiness, a little bit of ministry, a little …

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