Sublime

The therapeutic—that God wants to endorse my life and keep me happy—is contrasted with kenosis, which makes life not about the therapeutic but about the ministerial.

The pastor’s public importance rests not in the fact that she is a pastor and plays a part in a divine order but rather in the fact that her church is big (in numbers, budget, or cultural relevance).10

So the household of ministry is the place of story, meaning it has its center in the practice of testimony.

As a household of ministry, the shape of a church’s gathered life revolves around three core dispositions that continue to renew the household as ministry. These three dispositions are directed not toward the household itself but toward Jesus, the one who is ministry.

from the land of Jordan

The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure. Lydgate thought that there was a pitiable infirmity of will in Mr Farebrother.

I am not religious, so it is not my place to dictate to Christians what they should and should not believe. Still, if someone has a faith worth following, I feel that their beliefs should make me feel uncomfortable for not doing so. If they share 90 percent of my lifestyle and values, then there is nothing especially inspiring about them. Instead o