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To be a pastor requires the willingness to do your biblical studies and your theology down in the mud from which humanity arose and in which we continue to live and move and have our being. You think your job as a pastor is to apply biblical truth to people at a safe remove? Think again. Your job as a pastor is to be willing to come alongside real people having real struggles. Sometimes the people are like you and their struggles like your own. Sometimes they are unlike you–they and their struggles that is. And your job is to know them in their struggles as if they were your own.
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Lauren Winner, author of girl meets god and real sex is coming to town and will be speaking this monday, Feb. 4 at 8pm. I’m not a big fan of Christian books of the inspirational variety. They don’t inspire me. But Lauren’s stuff is different. I bought girl meets god for my then 22 year old daughter, Amy. An impulse buy because I liked the cover and the author bio. Amy loved it–and she’s a lover of good writing. I mean loved it. So I read it. And loved it. The problem with much Christian writing is that it is often constrained by the tribal sensibilities of it’s intended audience, which these days is evangelical. This inhibits candor and inflames caution which takes the art out of writing.
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