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The following first appeared on Alan Cross’ personal blog Downshore Drift last Friday. We thought it was so good it was worth a double-post over here as well.

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So says Eugene Peterson as quoted by Michael Spencer from Peterson’s book, Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity. This perspective is important not just for pastors, but also for Christians who are serious about what their relationship to their church and the Lord should look like. I have heard people who come to our church of around 200-250 people say, “I love the preaching, teaching, worship, fellowship, and sense of spirituality and focus on Christ that you have here. My children made friends and we love their Sunday School teacher. We have made friends and have never been in such a warm, loving spiritual environment where the Bible is taught and people take their relationship with God seriously. We just don’t know if we can be in a church this small. Read the rest of this entry »