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” …
Darryl Dash is enjoying Zack Eswine’s The Imperfect Pastor as well. In a post that also features pointers from Haddon Robinson and Brian Chapell, Dash provides these three questions that Eswine commends preachers to ask of the text they are studying: What does this passage show me about the loveliness of God? Or, put another …
I’m looking forward to reading all of Zack Eswine’s The Imperfect Pastor. Here he writes about the way that aspiring to the work of a pastor is a long-haul commitment that cannot succumb to the temptations of haste or instancy: …imagine loving God and others through the desolations of life. Desolation cannot easily endure an …
The Imperfect Pastor is a rewrite of Zack Eswine’s earlier book Sensing Jesus. It seems unusual to rewrite something that is only a few years old, let alone to then reduce the length by half and introduce about one third new content. That being written, Sensing Jesus was such an extraordinarily helpful insight into pastoral …
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