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I am more and more convinced that what gives a ministry its motivations, perseverance​, humility, joy, tenderness, passion, and grace is the devotional life of the one doing ministry.

It must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind (although that is an important element of spiritual maturity). No, maturity, is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant​ spiritual growth.

When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

You are most loving, patient, kind, and gracious when you are aware that there is no truth that you could give to another that you don't desperately need yourself. You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you.

This book is written to confront the issue of the often unhealthy shape of pastoral culture and to put on the table the temptations that are either unique to or intensified by pastoral ministry. This is a book of warning that calls you to humble self-reflection​ and change.

This is a diagnostic book. It is written to help you take an honest look at yourself in the heart-and life-exposing mirror of the Word of God—to see things that are wrong and​ need correcting and to help you place yourself once again under the healing and transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.