MINISTERING OUT OF THE QUIET
I get so much personal help from Christianity Today’s Leadership Library Series of books. A recent one was by Eugene Peterson, pastor of Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland is entitled, The Contemplative Pastor. Written from one pastor to another, he has a great deal to say about the dilemmas all of us face today in our ministry within the crazy, tumultuous and dying culture in which we live our lives today. Here’s a passage from this marvelous and helpful book: In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, there is a turbulent scene in which a whaleboat scuds across a frothing ocean in pursuit of the great white whale, Moby Dick. The sailors are laboring fiercely, every muscle taut, all attention and energy concentrated on the task. The cosmic conflict between good and evil is joined; chaotic sea and demonic sea monster versus the morally outraged man, Captain Ahab. In this boat, however, there is one man who…
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