Tertullian wrote, 'It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving-kindness, that brands us in the eyes of many of our opponents. 'Only look,' they say, 'how they love one another.'
The Body grows not only through preaching but through kindness in and outside the church. So this is a leader’s role: foster a joyful and patient community where people tolerate each other and are kind to each other.
This is a powerful article by a wonderful disciple and scholar. I thoroughly enjoyed his commentary on Acts and find these thoughts especially challenging as a pastor. The quote above is what I am finding to be the number 1 challenge of pastoring in a small town. The lack of joyful, patient community is destroying so many small churches.
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