The Prayer Champion Pastor

[Reimagine Curator]

Why We Need More ‘Chaplains’ and Fewer Leaders

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What’s a pastor for?

Mark Galli

Eugene Peterson put it this way in The Contemplative Pastor:

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“The primary language of the cure of souls … is conversation and prayer. Being a pastor means learning to use language in which personal uniqueness is enhanced and individual sanctity recognized and respected. It is a language that is unhurried, unforced, unexcited—the leisurely language of friends and lovers, which is also the language of prayer.”