Sublime

What makes the pastoral (or better, the ministerial) remain significant, even up against these transitions, is its ability to host an encounter with personhood. It appears, both in lived experience and the tradition, that divine action comes in and through personhood.

The message of this symbol was so significant that it was deemed by God himself to be sufficient to outweigh the risk of misunderstanding. God speaks where two persons turn their face to one another in love, embrace, generosity and care. God’s presence is everywhere. But not everywhere are we ready to receive it. When we open our ‘I’ to another’s ‘

How God Shapes You for Your Ministry Whenever God gives us an assignment, he always equips us with what we need to accomplish it. This custom combination of capabilities is called your SHAPE: Spiritual gifts Heart Abilities Personality Experience

At every moment and in every situation God is the intimate, attentive and encouraging friend.

Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.

divinity. God must attach us, in all our frailty and finitude, to God.

For Eros to lead to resonance (a fullness of life and beauty) it must be bound inside person-to-person relationships that honor the mysterious boundaries of otherness.

We experience an encounter with the being of God, finding ourselves in union with the being of Jesus when we are ministered to and led to be ministers to others (see Matt. 25:31–46). To be formed in faith is to give yourself to the story of Jesus coming to you, or someone you know, in and through a death experience.

One who has been chosen to walk the boundaries. One who somehow has an understanding of the mysteries of the world and who sees in the clawing briars God’s own handwriting.