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Subscribe to CommentsMaybe you’ve notice that pastoring seems to be a near occaision to mainline anxiety. I’ve been battling anxiety for the past year myself, thank you, but I seem to be on the mend. Thanks in no small part to the best book on leadership I’ve read in years: A Failure of Nerve by Edwin Friedman. Stop, drop, and read this book if you are a young pastor battling anxiety.
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Love demands more of us than any other thing. Because God is love, and man, can he be demanding! So why does an emphasis on love make some people of faith nervous?
I’m mystified by the occasional push back I get on this blog when I quote the golden rule: “”In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 7: 12 Someone objected that this is not the gospel. Oh?
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