My wife and I read a book with the above title, and would like to share a few thoughts from the preface.
Author: Chris Northcott
||Pastoral Passage|| Theology matters. It defines and declares who your God is. The knowledge of God is what fuels and steadies the devotion of his people in their song and their service.
||Pastoral Passage|| During my own short stint at university in my early 20’s I remember a few cheap shots taken from the front of the lecture theatre…
||Pastoral Passage|| Is our following of Jesus easier than he intended it to be?
||Pastoral Passage|| I have wondered if the way we practice church gatherings is too attendance-based to prompt much opportunity for meaningful fellowship and mutual love.
||Pastoral Passage|| An experience of healing, by faith in the character of God, expressed by prayer.
||Pastoral Passage|| Three episodes from the Gospel of Matthew that not only inform us about Jesus, but suggest to us how we can relate to him.
Cultural and academic underachievement might need to be a mark of faithfulness to Jesus in our busy and cultured society.
||Pastoral Passage|| Community is built into Christianity, much like smartphones are made to be hooked into the internet.
||Pastoral Passage|| There is a fairly old debate concerning modern Christian mission: Should priority be given to gospel preaching or to social action?
Chris Northcott 