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PostPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2016 1:38 pm    Post subject: Pastoral life in the Wilderness Reply with quote

The first chapter reminds me of Psalm 91:5,6— “You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.”—isn’t it a comparable scene in description of the topic of Wilderness, where heat, drought, and any other circumstances, like terror, arrow, and plague in the psalm, are all harmful to a basic human living? Many years ago as seminary students we heard of stories from our predecessors that to minister in the church is like a soldier struggling to survive in the “rain of guns and bullets”. Why does church become so difficult for pastors sometimes? After graduated from GCTS I was invited to join a local church as pastor some ten years ago. A pastor friend of my prayed for me before we left Massachusetts for the new journey. He intentionally quoted the last lines of the Lord’s Prayer: “Deliver us from the evil”, he prayed. Later in the ministry I indeed experienced the heat, drought, arrow, plague in the desert of the pastoral life. Evil may work even in a church. We do enter a wilderness like Jesus. It is privilege and yet tough to be like Jesus in such a way of pastoral life.
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