The Relational Pastor Quotes

“The Church may have a building, but that is not its place. The building may be the church's location, but its space is in the shared humanity of its persons.”
― Andrew Root, The Relational Pastor: Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves

“A teacher, for instance, seems to be an active agent-correcting papers, preparing exams and submitting grades. While these functions are important, they do not make the teacher a person. Such activities may make her a teacher, but we have known too many who have moved the students from one textbook to the next but could not be a person to students, igniting in them a desire to indwell the content of the class by sharing in the life and passion of the teacher.”
― Andrew Root, The Relational Pastor: Sharing in Christ by Sharing Ourselves