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Instead of going to the Temple to become right with God, God’s people, through Jesus, are going into the world to bring hope and life wherever they go. The Bible even says that we are priests, those who take this ‘keeping’ role seriously by living out the grand story of God’s redemptive work in the very places we live, work, and play.
The pastors and leaders we want and need are those who have learned to be loving neighbours, who sit for hours around each other’s tables, and who create space for making their neighbourhood beautiful.
It is in these places of interpersonal relationships, in the shared joys and sorrows, anger and rest, where we as pastors are being called to reside. It’s here that we notice, almost as a surprise, that our church is growing, that people are coming to live like Jesus, and (who would have guessed?) they’re also finding that they, too, want to love their neighbours. What is modelled in the life of the pastor, and in church leaders often informs the shapes and contours of the community we serve.
