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- People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's…
- When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.
- I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through…
- That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you…
- In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms…
- If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day…
- One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.
- If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame…
- Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's…
- The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not…
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