Keegan Matheson’s Reviews > Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity > Status Update

“The implication of this for pastoral work is plain: it begins in prayer. Anything creative, anything powerful, anything biblical, insofar as we are participants in it, originates in prayer. Pastors who imitate the preaching and moral action of the prophets without also imitating the prophet’s deep praying and worship so evident in the Psalms are an embarrassment to the faith and an encumbrance to the church.”

“Am I keeping the line clear between what I am committed to and what people are asking of me? Is my primary orientation God’s grace, his mercy, his action in creation and covenant? And am I committed enough to it so that when people ask me to do something that will not lead them into a more mature participation in these realities actions I refuse?”